Mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle says he declined an invitation from Rahm Emanuel to co-chair the mayor-elect’s transition team. Del Valle told me in a phone interview that he turned the position down because—after his term as City Clerk is over on May 15th—he will work on other projects “organizing around progressive issues in the neighborhoods.”…
Yesterday’s big business news was that Chicago-based Boeing won a $35b contract to replace the Air Force’s extremely old tanker planes over the European conglomerate EADS. It’s the third time the contract has been awarded, and the latest development in one of Washington’s longest, most expensive dramas.
Rich Daley suffered his share of controversial stories about his brothers Bill and John, but they were not nearly as dramatic as what awaits us with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Last night on WIND’s Mike Gallagher Show, the conservative host was in full outrage mode over a story…
The city is set to break a monthly snowfall record that’s stood since the 19th century. Just be grateful that it’s not a dark mush of cigar ashes, soot, and “horseshoe particle” like the one that fell back then.
Rahm Emanuel names his transition team; more theories on why voter turnout was so low; the ongoing problems of Meritorious Good Time; sobering stats on minority poverty and unemployment; and more.
Meet the new boss, the logical next step after the old boss: Rahm Emanuel will replace Mayor Daley as the mayor of Chicago after a convincing win that emerged from money, power, and history.
MARCH 2011: Jennifer Tanaka, Amalie Drury, Maria Ponce, Wesley Kimler, Stacey Jones
Do spitters and slow walkers raise your hackles? If so, you might be a sidewalk rager. But when you hit the streets and they hit back, it’s healthier to turn the other cheek.
While it’s true that Rahm Emanuel leads his three main rivals in the race today to succeed Richard M. Daley as mayor of Chicago, there are some people in this city who cast a ballot for someone other than Emanuel. Perhaps not, according to an Associated Press story picked up by many media outlets, including Crain’s. The piece, which did not have a byline, includes interviews with six voters—and five are voting for Rahm. (One voter doesn’t say whom he’s voting for.)
In the waning hours of a historic Chicago election, here’s a sampling of the conversation happening online with Chicago politicians, reporters, commentators and newsmakers.
