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Mayor Rahm Emanuel pushed back at allegations of "financial shell game" to divert money meant for blight fight to thriving tourist attraction.

Emanuel pushes back at ‘financial shell game’ allegation about Navy Pier funds

May 15, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration on Monday mounted a coordinated response to a business magazine report that accused the city of playing "an elaborate financial shell game" to divert money meant...

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel holds a press conference in his press office at city hall in Chicago on April 28, 2017.

Ex-Ald. Singer among 6 fined for illegally lobbying Emanuel via email

May 15, 2019 at 4:25 p.m.

Former Chicago Ald. William Singer has been hit with the biggest of six fines leveled this week by the Chicago Board of Ethics against those who lobbied Mayor Rahm Emanuel...

Terrill Swift at his home in Lisle on Feb. 28, 2017. Swift was exonerated for a murder and sexual assault he did not commit. On Wednesday, a $5.6 million payout to settle a lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution was approved by the Cook County Board.

County OKs $5.6 million wrongful prosecution settlement in Englewood Four case

May 15, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

A $5.6 million payout to settle a lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution of a teenager who was wrongfully convicted of raping and killing a South Side woman was approved Wednesday by...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle.

Preckwinkle, Dart spar over budget cuts driven by soda pop tax delay

May 15, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

The financial squeeze over a delayed Cook County soda pop tax is leading to a harsh war of words between Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Sheriff Tom Dart. Preckwinkle accused...

Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios, appearing July 18, 2018, before County Board to answer questions regarding the fairness of his office's property assessments, maintained that "we value properties fairly and accurately."

County officials quiz Berrios about fairness of property assessments

May 15, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

Cook County commissioners on Tuesday expressed concern that the system used by Assessor Joseph Berrios to estimate real estate values favors the wealthy at the expense of the poor —...

Overtly racist, sexist and homophobic emails were distributed for years among a group of top-level Chicago water department supervisors.

Newly released racist, sexist emails show scope of scandal at Chicago’s water department

May 15, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

City emails newly obtained by the Tribune cast light on the scope and offensiveness of racist, sexist and anti-gay slurs by politically connected supervisors at the top levels of the...

A Democratic school funding bill sponsored by Sen. Andy Manar is based on an "evidence-based" formula, which uses more than two dozen metrics to determine a dollar figure that each school district would need to spend per student to provide an adequate education.

Rauner-CPS feud could hold up school money for rest of state

August 22, 2019 at 12:07 a.m.

Parents, teachers and students throughout Illinois could have a turbulent start to the school year if Democrats who control the Legislature and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner don't reach an agreement...

Aerial view of the Chicago skyline looking east along Chicago Avenue to Lake Michigan on April 17, 2017.

Wall Street agency warns of further city debt downgrade

May 15, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

One Wall Street bond rating agency on Friday warned that Chicago could face yet another debt downgrade because of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's commitment to keeping the city's schools financially afloat....

Plaintiff Derrick Edmond, left, and attorney Victor P. Henderson walk outside the Sawyer Water Purification Plant at S.79th St. and the lakefront on June 29, 2017.

Lawsuit alleges racism at roiled Chicago water department

May 15, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

African-American employees of the Chicago water department routinely were denied promotions, subjected to racial slurs and sexually harassed because of their race, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday that could...

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel holds a press conference in his press office at city hall in Chicago on Friday, April 28, 2017.

Emanuel to go it alone on pension contributions as Rauner opposes his favored plan

May 15, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

With Gov. Bruce Rauner's opposition to a plan to increase contributions to two city worker pension funds, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday proposed Chicago go it alone for now. The...

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