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26 Mar 2024, 12:52 pm
The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics. [read post]
15 Feb 2007, 11:00 pm
None other than Julius Hoffman, a former law partner of Chicago boss-mayor Richard Daley, whose city hosted the 1968 Democratic convention during which the Chicago Seven were arrested. [read post]
2 Mar 2023, 8:38 am
In those cities, Black people are outnumbered by other nonwhite groups, and in New York City and Chicago their ranks are dwindling. [read post]
4 May 2022, 1:01 am
A PBS online history avers that because Chicago had a sympathetic mayor in Carter Harrison, the nationwide movement focused on that city. [read post]
28 Jun 2008, 6:17 pm
District Court Judge James Moody cleared the way Friday for the state's protracted civil racketeering lawsuit against former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick to go to trial. [read post]
BLOOMBERG FOUNDATION pushing gun control in Memphis? “Memphis’ $4.8 million will be used to revive …
14 Jul 2011, 7:58 am
Other recipients of grants are the mayors of Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans and Louisville, Ky.” “Handgun violence” isn’t a public-health crisis. [read post]
22 May 2012, 3:54 am
The three have reportedly been accused of hatching a plot to attack Obama's campaign headquarters, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home, and several police stations. [read post]
22 May 2021, 4:00 am
As BLM protests, riots and looting threatened to leave her as mayor of the devastation formerly known as Chicago, she raised the bridges and sent out the riot troops. [read post]
YOU KNOW IT’S BAD WHEN MIKE BLOOMBERG CALLS YOU HEAVY-HANDED: Michael Bloomberg fillets Tom Menino …
28 Jul 2012, 10:40 am
. “The billionaire businessman-turned-New York mayor said Menino, along with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee, are wrong ‘to look at somebody’s political views and decide whether or not they can live in the city, or operate a business in the city.’” [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 9:30 am
STATEMENT OF MAYOR MICHAEL R. [read post]
5 Dec 2010, 9:16 am
This ILB entry from May 23, 2010 quoted a Chicago Sun-Times story:In the name of “transparency,” Mayor Daley on Thursday... [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 12:19 pm
As the Nov. 22 deadline for filing for mayor of Chicago fast approaches, some in the Second City are bracing for a legal challenge over the issue if Emanuel enters the race as predicted. [read post]
23 May 2010, 11:34 am
There were several somewhat outraged stories last week reporting that Chicago's Mayor Daley was posting all FOI requests online. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 4:47 am
And so, Chicago Mayor Daley has introduced a “Tax Whistleblower Program” for 2010. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 8:01 am
Law professor Anil Kalhan has a very interesting post on Dorf on Law about Chicago Mayor (and former Obama White House Chief of Staff) Rahm Emanuel's immigrant-friendly policies in Chicago. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 10:24 am
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced the creation of an ethics reform task force charged with overhauling and strengthening the city’s ethics ordinance. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 8:00 am
When the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced Chicago would be the country's bid city for the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago's political and business leaders rejoiced in their joint victory.[1] Nearly a year after Chicago Mayor Richard Daley formed the Olympic exploratory committee, and nine months after being named one of the U.S. finalists, the USOC threw its support behind the bid city that has quickly achieved… [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 11:13 am
At the center of the dispute is his famously blunt former chief of staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), who is pushing aggressively for policies the president has championed: higher academic standards, longer school days and greater teacher accountability. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 2:49 pm
Earlier this month, Fitch Ratings downgraded Chicago's bond rating, citing the worst shortfall in the city's history and Mayor Daley's "accelerated use of reserves to balance operations. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 11:04 am
According to WBEZ, an investigation began in March 2020 after the park district’s top official and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office received separate complaints from two former female lifeguards alleging serious misconduct by dozens of Chicago Park District employees in the Aquatics Department. [read post]
