Chicago voters largely appeared to reject ... transformation a decade ago when it organized against former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2013 mass school closures that disproportionately hit Black ...

In Chicago, the mayor and the teachers’ union are tightly connected. The relationship has ushered in generous spending and ...

In 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), along with thousands of supporters, took to the streets in a historic battle with then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel over ... have fought Gov. Ron Desantis ...

Dowell praised Johnson’s decision to continue making advance payments to Chicago’s struggling pension funds, a move that began under former Mayor Lori ... of Rahm Emanuel over the years ...

Chicago voters have rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s education agenda as only four of 10 candidates endorsed by the powerful teacher’s union will hold seats on the city’s new hybrid Board of Education ...

Henyard has denied wrongdoing amid the federal investigation, as well as a separate trustee-sponsored investigation led by former Chicago Mayor Lori ... for Police Chief, Ronald Burge Sr., ...

“Now, it’s in front of my door,” Johnson said, ignoring the enormous political capital spent by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel to double Chicago’s property tax levy to chip away at the city’s ...

Last year, when he was campaigning to be mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson ... schools in black neighbourhoods is unpopular. When Rahm Emanuel, a former mayor, did it a decade ago, it may have ...

The shocking, violent act on Oct. 20, 2014, killed the 17-year-old and reverberated for years through Chicago’s City Hall. And Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a surprise announcement that he would not ...

CHICAGO — While campaigning to be mayor prior to his election in April ... Before Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel pushed through a major tax increase to begin paying down Chicago’s accumulated pension ...

Emanuel acknowledged he was “handcuffed” in an unusual way for an operative whose adventuresome career has included terms as White House chief of staff, Chicago mayor and chair of the ...

Chicago finds itself amid fiscal turbulence ... trailing only the $588 million increase initiated by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel over four years. Johnson attributed the financial plight to ...