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Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at an event at Gage Park in Chicago on Dec. 6, 2017.

Harvard students follow UCLA and University of Michigan students in protesting Emanuel

May 23, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

Within the last month, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been heckled on out-of-town campuses on the West Coast and in the Midwest about his plans for a new police academy. Now...

Dan Sinker is seen at his home in Evanston on Feb. 28, 2011.

For the Trump-hater in your life: A prayer candle asking God to release alleged naughty tape

May 23, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

He made his name as the brains behind @MayorEmanuel, a wildly profane Twitter parody (and later book) poking fun at Rahm Emanuel’s first mayoral campaign. Now creative tech guy Dan...

Trump nominee for U.S. Court of Appeals once scolded him from the bench

May 23, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

President Donald Trump may have a reputation for demanding loyalty, but his latest nominee for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has the rare distinction of winning Trump’s approval...

Rahm Emanuel, left, and David Schwimmer.

Rahm Emanuel, David Schwimmer bond over fear of maternal criticism

May 23, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel likes to play the alpha male, but there’s at least one woman he admits can make him quake in his dress shoes — his mom, Marsha Emanuel....

WLS-Ch.7 blames graphics ‘mix-up’ for confusion between P.F. Chang’s and Pyeongchang

June 21, 2019 at 3:10 p.m.

Pyeongchang is a mountainous county 110 miles southeast of Seoul in South Korea, and the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics. P.F. Chang’s is an Asian-inspired chain restaurant with 210...

The mysterious Chicago Party Aunt speaks, revealing a bit more in radio show

May 23, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

You’ve read the tweets — now hear Chicago Party Aunt speak! The mysterious parody cougar who has built a devoted Twitter following of more than 16,000 with stories of closing...

Journalists Bob Woodward, left, and Carl Bernstein, shown in April 2017 in Washington, spoke before a Chicago audience at Northeastern Illinois University on Feb. 8, 2018.

Woodward and Bernstein blast Trump, get in a dig at baiduhai

May 23, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

President Donald Trump is a “demagogue,” a “con man,” a “grifter” and a “McCarthyite,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Carl Bernstein told a Chicago audience this week. But tell us what you...

United States Attorney Scott Lassar, flanked by investigators, makes an announcement of charges against Chicago Alderman Percy Giles and one of his associates in 1999 as part of the Operation Silver Shovel corruption probe.

Podcast producer suing FBI in Chicago to get Silver Shovel tapes

May 23, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

If further evidence were needed that demand for true-crime podcasts is booming, a lawsuit filed this week in Chicago’s federal court provides it. “Serial” — the hit NPR podcast which...

Audience members listen to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speak at Mandel Hall on Feb. 7, 2018, during an event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

Trudeau careful not to offend Trump during pro-NAFTA talk in Chicago

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

President Donald Trump may not be especially popular with Canadians, but Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau charmed an audience of American students at the University of Chicago on Wednesday night...

Trans attorney: ‘Dangerous’ Jeanne Ives ‘hurt my feelings’ over controversial ad

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

A transgender woman attorney whose physical appearance state Rep. Jeanne Ives cited as justification for casting a gruff-voiced male actor in a campaign ad widely condemned as bigoted and transphobic...

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