In their ceaseless effort to give the mayor credit for everything, Cty Hall flacks announced the sun rose in the east, thanks to Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Not really.…
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This JP Morgan business is beginning to look like a case of Jamie, we hardly knew you. We meaning people on the street never did know him, but some thought they did, and it is to them I refer, including the presidential amateur who says Chase bank is s…

City officials are busy trying to reassure Chicago residents that their neighborhoods are still going to have police protection over the next week, even though hundreds of officers have been sent downtown for the NATO summit…

. . . when it gave $400G to something you’re a director of.  Congratulations, girl, you have come a long way (from your FBI-wanted days). (HT: Sun-Times, which appropriately if surprisingly features the story prominently.)

Finally got around to talking to Emily Miller the other day.
She’s the lawyer for the Better Government Association who valiantly fought to make sure that Mayor Emanuel had to publicize the internal documents of his Infrastr…

Mayor Emanuel may be one of the smartest politicians in Chicago, but it looks like he’s a little too smart for his own good with his infrastructure trust fund.
As far as I can tell, the purpose of the fund was to 1) win favo…

It seems like only yesterday that I was rejoicing over the newfound boldness of our Chicago City Council in regards to the mayor’s wacky infrastructure trust scheme.
That was last week when I was rejoicing over the fact that…

Great story by WBEZ’s ace reporter Linda Lutton about Mayor Emanuel and local school councils—as in, did he or did he not vote in the recent LSC elections?
The mayor says he did—or at least he thinks he did—but the peop…

If you recall, I valiantly tried to save Mayor Emanuel from the mess he got himself into when he unilaterally declared that, from here on out, the public school children of Chicago would have to wear their underwear on the ou…

A day or two after last week’s election, I got a call from a guy I know who works for UNO, talking a little trash ’cause his candidate won the big election.
How did I know this call was coming?
So, gulp, I have to do it.……