Emanuel, CPS Chief Won't Speculate On Potential School Closings
Chicago Public Schools officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday that it's too early to say how many schools might need to be closed to make the system more efficient.
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Chicago Public Schools officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday that it's too early to say how many schools might need to be closed to make the system more efficient.
So much for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney suspending their campaigns during the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. Both candidates found ways to be seen and heard on Tuesday, even if they weren't officially campaigning.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has welcomed word that the Chicago Children's Museum has signed a new lease with Navy Pier, keeping it there through this century, but his office isn't providing many details of the lease.
Crowds continued to cast early-voting ballots across Chicago Monday, even as President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, suspended campaign activities because of Hurricane Sandy.
James P. Hoffa and Dick DeVos have vastly differing views of unions, which is why in this heated political climate battles are raging across America over unions in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, California and other states, the two took time to participate in CBS Local Digital Debate.
There's one less Super PAC pouring money into the 8th District congressional race in the northwest suburbs.
Democrats in the northwest suburbs are trying to prod more voters into casting ballots early, even though there are already many in line.
Don't bet on slot machines at Chicago's airports anytime soon, despite the support of the city's aviation commissioner and O'Hare International Airport's alderman.
Now, Gov. Pat Quinn says, it's up to Corrections Director Salvador Godinez to decide when and how reporters will have access.
At least one alderman may have gotten a case of political indigestion.
This is Day Four of early voting in Illinois, and thousands of people are taking advantage.
President Barack Obama cast an early ballot for the Nov. 6 election during a brief visit to his hometown of Chicago on Thursday.
Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is defending its decision allowing community college students to take an "educational" tour of one of the state's maximum-security prison while at the same time continuing to bar reporters from such visits as a security risk.
Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Wednesday that he is standing by his statement that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended." He says some people have twisted the meaning of his comment.
As City Council budget hearings continued Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel was trying to deflect aldermanic calls for more police officers than already planned.
