Emanuel Putting Together Financial Team To Bring Fiscal Stability
Faced with a worsening budget picture, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is putting a financial team together to make the tough decisions to bring fiscal stability.
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Faced with a worsening budget picture, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is putting a financial team together to make the tough decisions to bring fiscal stability.
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel defended what to some was a controversial choice to run Chicago's public schools.
Cook County has come up with a capital improvements program that puts the brakes on some big projects that once had a green light.
Members of the incoming Emanuel administration are hinting at tough contract negotiations ahead at the Chicago Transit Authority.
In stark contrast to the first trial, the first day of former Rod. Blagojevich's retrial started quietly on Wednesday at the Dirksen Federal Building, with all of the action taking place behind closed doors.
Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford said Tuesday that he's encouraged by the atmosphere around the Capitol this year as budget negotiations heat up.
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's second trial on federal corruption charges begins on Wednesday, but it won't be a simple repeat of the first trial.
Chicago First Lady Maggie Daley will be in the hospital for a while longer, according to her physician.
A day after naming a new team to run the city's public schools, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday that he's tapping former Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool to run the CTA.
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel hopes to have his new police superintendent picked before he's sworn in less than four weeks from now, and it appears the list of prime candidates is getting shorter.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) says a remedy to high gas prices could be found by looking to Illinois' own natural resources.
Parents of Chicago Public School students saw Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel's choice of a new CPS chief as an opportunity for change in the school system.
Cook County is now requiring public employees to publicly declare when politics is involved in the hiring process.
The deaths of two residents of a downstate Charleston group home in recent years have state lawmakers jumping into action.
Federal prosecutors accused Rod Blagojevich of "out-and-out fabrications" in recent media interviews, prompting the judge to advise the former governor "to restrain himself."
