There's no denying that Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made great strides to increase transparency in the city government, but the Tribune says his office has shut reporters out from crucial information. more ›

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is now starting to have doubts about the ability of the South Side Irish Parade Committee to host a parade with a zero-tolerance policy for drinking in public. Welcome to the club, Your Honor. more ›

Forget taking the poll with a grain of salt. Dump out the whole shaker. more ›

Today is the deadline day for Gov. Pat Quinn to make a decision on Senate Bill 965, aka the Chicago speed camera bill. more ›

Adbusters, the Vancouver-based activist group who helped spark the Occupy movement, is calling for over 50,000 protesters to come to Chicago for the May NATO and G8 summits, and they're invoking the ghosts of Chicago history in the process. more ›

In order to combat the fear that Chicago will be overtaken by “professional anarchists and rioters,” as Fraternal Order of Police President Michael Shields described them, city officials announced several events to take place during the summits and their subsequent protests. more ›

Mayor Emanuel may have backtracked a bit when he announced yesterday that library service would be restored on Monday afternoons starting Feb. 6. But for the coalition known as Keep Chicago Working, it isn't enough. more ›

Mayor Emanuel announced plans today to re-open the branch libraries on Monday afternoons. more ›

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is hosting his second Facebook town hall forum on Monday evening, and this one focuses on education. He might need to address that whole extended school day thing. more ›

"To me, marriage is a recognition of love, and the state should not be in the business of discriminating," Emanuel said. more ›

Here's your new ward map, Chicago. It was approved by City Council today by a 41-8 vote. The number of votes is notable as it means the map will not go to residents to a vote. more ›

The Chicago City Council approved new regulations for taxicab drivers yesterday that it hopes to improve safety. more ›

The council approved tighter restrictions on parade organizers, give authority to Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy to deputize law enforcement from other states and closes parks to the public for an extra two hours. The City Council also approved blanket spending authority to the Mayor for the events. more ›

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the City granted a parade permit to the South Side Irish Parade Committee because he's certain Beverly residents can celebrate their Irish heritage sober. So are we. It's the buses and trains of people flocking to Beverly with whom we have our doubts, Your Honor. more ›

It’s (almost) all over but the shouting between black and Hispanic aldermen over their rival ward remapping proposals. A compromise has been reached on a new ward map that includes 18 majority black wards, 13 majority Hispanic wards, and two wards of Hispanic influence. more ›

The Sun-Times quotes a City Hall source as saying, given the concern raised, it made more sense to keep the fines where they are. more ›

Chicago Tonight had an informative and entertaining segment last night on the taxicab regulation overhaul proposed by Mayor Emanuel and the criticism of it by taxi drivers. more ›

Occupy Chicago partnered with a few people to create this video that quickly distills Emanuel's anti-protester ordinance. more ›

Not everyone responded to the news that the South Side Irish Parade Committee was granted a permit to bring back the event after a nearly three-year hiatus with open arms and cries of "w00t." more ›

Seeing that Rahm Emanuel is promising that private donations will cover the security costs for the May NATO and G8 summits, AFSCME Council 31 executive director Henry Bayer said yesterday a similar proposal could be used to restore library services on Mondays. more ›

The summits could cost Chicago anywhere between $40 and $65 million, but City Hall swears taxpayers will be off the hook. more ›

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office has made a point to make it more difficult to demonstrate against the summits, and the rhetoric surrounding them suggests the exercise of First Amendment rights in Chicago requires a set of cross-hairs to participate. more ›

Aldermen Edward Burke and Brendan Reilly wrote a letter to AFSCME Council 31 executive director Henry Bayer that suggested the labor union forgo a proposed 3.5 percent pay raise this year. They said doing so could restore most of the jobs lost by library employees and reopen libraries on Mondays. more ›

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, facing criticism by unions, aldermen and residents for the Chicago Public Library's decision to close on Mondays, is firing back. more ›

CBS 2 is citing sources as saying one has been charged with Lewis's death and another was in custody. more ›

The Chicago Police Department plans to switch officers to 12-hour shifts during the summits, freeing up a third of its force. Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy said, “It’s going to cost some money because we’re going to go to 12-hour tours, which means we’re going to be paying out overtime.” more ›

The Chicago Teachers Union held a sit-in at City Hall today to protest the mayor's plan to close a number of Chicago Public Schools. The groups are focused on lobbying for the schools in the mid-south region of the city. They say the closings are concentrated on the South Side, as they often are, as this map demonstrates. On the CTU website it states: more ›

Emanuel said that, after 20 years of running the festival in the same manner, it was time to make some fundamental changes to continue Taste's viability. more ›

When Mayor Emanuel introduced changes to the city’s parade ordinances last month that would increase fines for violations at protests and change park hours ahead of the NATO/G8 summits, he said the changes were “temporary…just for the conference and it’s appropriate.” The Tribune reports the mayor’s office acknowledged yesterday however, that those changes would be permanent. In addition to a major increase in fines, the ordinance would also now reduce the hours for a legal demonstration to two hours. more ›

The City this morning announced the launch of ChicagoShovels.org, an online resource that aims to assist residents with winter preparedness. more ›