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Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the Chicago City Council on Dec. 9, 2015.

Judge rejects Emanuel assertion that emails are exempt from disclosure

August 21, 2019 at 6:33 p.m.

A Cook County judge ruled in favor of the baiduhai on Tuesday by declaring that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's emails, texts and other communications are not exempt from disclosure simply...

Arne Duncan makes his last speech as the U.S. secretary of education in the basement of St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago on Dec. 30, 2015.

Arne Duncan named to Lucas Museum board

May 22, 2019 at 9:53 p.m.

Lucas Museum officials announced Tuesday that Arne Duncan has been named to the board of directors, an appointment that will begin June 1. Duncan is the former U.S. education secretary...

A commercial truck that was hit by gunfire sits in the northbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway between 87th and 95th Street early on May 20, 2016, in Chicago.

Expressway shootings on the rise in past few years, authorities say

June 10, 2018 at 3:07 p.m.

Shootings on Chicago-area expressways have been steadily climbing as violence from neighborhoods spills onto the city's busiest roadways, authorities say. The Thursday night wounding of a truck driver on the...

Supporters of the Lucas Museum project gather outside the offices of Friends of the Parks in downtown Chicago on May 19, 2016.

Protesters call on parks group to drop opposition to Lucas Museum

May 22, 2019 at 9:52 p.m.

Chanting "jobs over land!" and "build the museum," more than 100 supporters of the Lucas Museum in Chicago held a lunchtime rally Thursday outside the Loop offices of the parks...

Architect Ma Yansong at the originally proposed future site of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

San Francisco official says city is in talks with Lucas on museum

May 22, 2019 at 9:50 p.m.

San Francisco is making another case for "Star Wars" creator George Lucas to build his museum on the West Coast, floating an alternative site with potentially far fewer hurdles. Aaron...

Accountant for medical district given 6 months in prison for theft

May 22, 2019 at 9:50 p.m.

An accountant for the Illinois Medical District Commission was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison for embezzling more than $132,000. Cynthia Fernandez-Alonso, 42, funneled the money to her...

Parks group says it would take Lucas fight to state court if city motion granted

May 22, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

After referring to the Lucas Museum as a "elephantine project" on the opening page of its filing late Wednesday in federal appeals court, Friends of the Parks threw up a...

To lure George Lucas' museum, a panel picked by Mayor Rahm Emanuel recommended lakefront parking sites between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.

In Lucas fight, parks group stands firm in its mission

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 p.m.

Branded "no friend of Chicago" and labeled as a group not to be trusted, Friends of the Parks has created many high-profile enemies this week with its opposition to locating...

City resorts to rare legal maneuver in attempt to keep Lucas Museum in Chicago

May 22, 2019 at 9:47 p.m.

Frustrated by a slow-moving lawsuit and aware this may be the last shot at keeping George Lucas from bolting for the West Coast, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration resorted Wednesday to...

The McCormick Place Lakeside Center photographed Tuesday April 19, 2016 from the east side of the building.

Lucas looking outside Chicago as parks group opposes any lakefront museum sites

June 10, 2018 at 4:09 p.m.

The fate of the Lucas Museum project in Chicago was thrown into major doubt Tuesday after Friends of the Parks declared its opposition to any lakefront site, prompting the Lucas...

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