On Thursday, a town hall meeting hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to address gun violence exploded into a revolt against “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the aldermen in City Hall, with panel and audience members calling to vote out their elected officials. One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea…
Just two years after Rahm Emanuel slid easily into Chicago’s City Hall to replace Former Mayor Richard Daley, Emanuel is nowhere near as popular with Chicago residents as he was after first returning to the city from his post in President Obama’s White House. A new representative poll conducted by Crains/Ipsos shows just 2% surveyed strongly…
Tonight Louis Farrakhan, who just met with Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is hosting an online three-hour townhall. You can submit questions via twitter, facebook, or YouTube (instructions here), and follow the questions by using the hashtag #askFarrakhan. There are several things I’d like to know, starting with why did you meet with the Iranian dictator…
This morning we learned from Mayor Rahm Emanuel that the ends justify the means if it means that a park might come out at the other end. Nine years ago, Mayor Daley trucked in a line of bulldozers in the dead of the night to carve giant Xs into Meigs Field, a small Chicago airport…
While many of the traditional Taste of Chicago vendors have been lost this year as the Godfather, Rahm Emanuel, cut Chicago’s annual festival down to 5 days from 10-there’s one new item on the menu. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will be providing free Asian Carp sliders, made from ground up patties of the…
Last week I covered a joint Occupy/union protest in Milwaukee, Wis., against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was there speaking at fundraiser for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. While covering the protest, some behind-the-scenes operatives became so agitated at the presence of a journalist asking questions that they went to extreme lengths to keep the participants…
By: Kyle Olsen The protesters wandering around in various locations throughout Chicago are little more than warm-bodied rentals who are able to clutch a sign bearing the name of someone – in this case, Chicago Public Schools CEO J.C. Brizard – they’ve never heard of. It’s a classic example of astroturf trying to appear to…
Monday night Chicago Teachers Union and Occupy Chicago protesters, along with some local residents, showed up in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood to protest converting 18 public schools into charter schools. While none of the schools considered for conversion are in the north-side neighborhood, these community organizers chose this location specifically because it is where Mayor…
For more than two years now, health insurance experts like myself, health care experts like the physician activists at www.Docs4PatientCare.org, as well as Tea Party activists like former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin have been trying to warn the American public about the 2010 Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare). Chief amongst our concerns…
Rahm Emanuel’s brother Zeke plans to reveal-all about the three brothers’ childhood growing up in Chicago in a new book. According to a statement from Zeke’s publisher, “Emanuel casts new details on well-known episodes of his and his brothers’ early lives and reveals never before told stories of their growing up in Chicago.” Hopefully Zeke will…
