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Vote is close on Chicago Infrastructure Trust, but council committee approves it for full vote Wednesday

December 24, 2018 at 12:09 a.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's controversial plan to lure private firms to help rebuild Chicago squeaked through a City Council committee Monday, setting the stage for a potential showdown this week. Aldermen...

Emanuel pushing ahead with controversial vote

May 23, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing for a vote at Wednesday's City Council meeting on his controversial plan to attract private companies to pay for public works projects despite lingering questions...

Emanuel proposes cutting required business licenses by 60%

December 24, 2018 at 12:22 a.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced a plan today to cut the number of business licenses the city requires by 60 percent. The mayor said he wants to avoid repetition by consolidating...

City Council committee advances Emanuel’s controversial trust plan

May 16, 2019 at 10:25 a.m.

A Chicago City Council committee today recommended approval of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's controversial expansion of public-private partnerships on major construction projects, setting the stage for a Wednesday vote by all...

City Council committee advances Emanuel’s controversial trust plan

December 24, 2018 at 12:09 a.m.

A Chicago City Council committee today recommended approval of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's controversial expansion of public-private partnerships on major construction projects, setting the stage for a Wednesday vote by all...

Some aldermen raising concerns as hearing set on mayor’s trust plan

December 24, 2018 at 12:05 a.m.

The proposed expansion of public-private partnerships to rebuild Chicago would give a board dominated by corporate financiers handpicked by Mayor Rahm Emanuel the power to hammer out multimillion-dollar deals without...

Emanuel big-ticket approach lined with risks

December 23, 2018 at 11:44 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is giving the hard sell on his innovative yet little-tested plan to cut deals with private investors to build big-ticket public infrastructure projects, but skeptics need only...

Emanuel pledges citywide recycling in 2013

December 23, 2018 at 10:53 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel pledged Thursday that by the end of 2013 he will bring blue cart recycling to every Chicago home that doesn't yet have it, an elusive goal first...

Mayor Emanuel: Wrigley renovation talks in ‘final stages’

August 23, 2021 at 3:47 a.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday declared he's in the "final stages" of talks on a plan to renovate historic Wrigley Field, catching off-guard stakeholders from the North Side to City...

Emanuel and Quinn discuss pension reform

December 23, 2018 at 10:45 p.m.

Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Rahm Emanuel say it's unfair that Chicago homeowners foot the bill for city teacher pensions but also join taxpayers from the rest of Illinois in...

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