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Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced a plan to expand the City's transit-oriented development policy to include high-ridership, high-frequency CTA bus routes. Originally introduced in 2013, Chicago's TOD policy supports development around Chicago's train lines to both encourage lower carbon transportation choices and reduce household costs associated with car ownership.
Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago Film Office at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events today announced ten shows will film this summer and fall in Chicago. This includes filming for four new shows, as well as many returning long-running series including NBC's Chicago franchise.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Facebook today with City Colleges of Chicago announced two collaborations to expand digital and technology training to students across Chicago. Facebook will support students participating in coding bootcamps through the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, and will work with City Colleges to expand its existing digital marketing curriculum and training.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced the appointment of Jamie Rhee as the new Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Aviation . Rhee will succeed Ginger Evans, who is stepping down on August 1 after three remarkable years leading Chicago's aviation system.
Under the proposal, passengers would travel between downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport in 16-person vehicles travelling at 240km/h, slashing travel time to 12 minutes, from the current 30-45 minutes Chicago has selected Elon Musk's Boring Co to build a futuristic US$1 billion underground transit system that will whisk people from Chicago's downtown Loop district to O'Hare International Airport at 240km/h, the billionaire entrepreneur and Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday.
In this May 7, 2018, file photo, Elon Musk attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition in New York.
Elon Musk has been tapped to build a futuristic transportation system using high-powered electric "skates" to carry passengers between O'Hare International Airport and downtown Chicago. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will formally announce Thursday that his administration is entering one-on-one negotiations with Musk's Boring Company to build the high-speed system that will utilize electric vehicles running through twin underground tunnels, said Adam Collins, the mayor's spokesman.
When asked about Speaker Mike Madigan and the Springfield sexual harassment scandal, Mayor Emanuel went-off on a reporter Tuesday afternoon at City Hall. The question was whether the mayor's concerned women voters won't vote for Democrats because of the way Speaker Madigan has handled the #MeToo scandal in state politics.
Two students from the Parkland, Florida high school where 17 students were killed joined Good Kids, Mad City protesters to oppose Mayor Emanuel's new $95 million police and fire academy. Parkland March for our L ives activists Sophie Whitney and Alex Wind said listen to the No Cop Academy Protesters.
Chicago's public schools will make pre-kindergarten available to 3,700 more children next fall as part of a four-year plan to provide it to every 4-year-old in the city. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says implementing universal full-day pre-kindergarten for all of the children regardless of their families' financial status will "further close the achievement gap."
The Chicago City Council is set to vote on a proposal to build a police academy on the city's West Side. The proposal has sparked protests from residents angry about the $95 million price tag.
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The 2018 Night Out in the Parks series will bring over 1,200 world-class events, including over 230 movies, 102 dance showcases, 301 concerts and 184 theater performances, to every one of the city's 77 community areas. Over 1,700 Chicago-based artists will be involved as part of the family-friendly park event series, and will feature 130 neighborhood arts organizations and artists.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined Chicago Public Schools to celebrate the schools named to the 2018 Best High Schools list by U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings. The top nine CPS schools landed in the top eleven rankings in Illinois and top four hundred in the nation.
The allegiance of political empathy between Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel is striking. Both promised to serve and improve the city of Chicago, albeit through taxation, yet assured the citizens such expenses will be short lived and/or improvements will offset the expenditures.
Ald. Wilson Frost, right, attends a City Council meeting with Aldermen Richard Mell, from left, Eugene Schulter and Roman Pucinski on Dec. 4, 1978. Frost has died, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office said.
The Chicago Police Department is struggling to hire more black officers despite a push to diversify the agency amid controversial shootings of black men by white officers. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced efforts in September 2016 to expand the department by about 1,000 officers.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced a package of new reforms to support small businesses across the city. The plan will reduce costs for businesses, simplify the licensing process, increase transparency, support start-up and innovative businesses, and reduce the burden of inspections for all businesses.
Rahm Emanuel continues to blame Chicago's ongoing financial problems on the situation he inherited when he was elected mayor. Rahm Emanuel continues to blame Chicago's ongoing financial problems on the situation he inherited when he was elected mayor.