Apparently it's not just the UAW that is not fond of our Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, the animosity goes even farther up. In a video of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka taken last weekend when he showed up in Madison, Wisconsin, in support of the union members protesting there, he seemed to be more than pleased that Emanuel had vacated Washington, D.C., to return to the Windy City. more ›

The past few days of testimony in the Al Sanchez corruption trial have been wrought with allegations - both against Sanchez and the mayor, as well as other, lesser players in the HDO drama. The allegations that federal prosecutors made include the promise of city jobs should Richard Daley win election in 1989. "My understanding was that we would eventually get some political jobs, city jobs" if Daley became mayor, said Raymond Gamboa, a deputy commissioner in the city's General Services Department. Gamboa was describing a meeting that took place in a Southeast side bar in the late 1980's. Gamboa and Sanchez were part of a Hispanic group that was recruited to support the then-State's Attorney for mayor. That group eventually merged with other pro-Daley groups on the South side to become the Hispanic Democratic Organization. more ›

Although he didn't come right out and say it, Rod Blagojevich signaled to the Illinois press that he'll run for a third term. "I love my job. I think I am a great governor. There is more to do. I like my job and there is no reason to think I don’t want to keep doing this job," the governor said yesterday during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. "If this was just some non-contact sport and that’s how you approached it in getting things done for people, half — not even a quarter — of these things that I’m proud of wouldn’t have happened for people," Blagojevich told the Sun-Times. "I feel like these accomplishments are real and meaningful for real people." more ›