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Mayor's Office

Tue, 06/03/2014 - 1:50pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel reached out to Kathy Byrne, the daughter of former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, to say he is working to honor the former mayor with a monument or tribute; Byrne is Chicago’s first and only woman to serve as mayor; Mayoral press secretary Kelley Quinn said, “The mayor feels Mayor Byrne was a trailblazer and ahead of her time,” adding, “He extended his help in doing what he could to” honor her

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 3:43pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday called for Gov. Pat Quinn to enact legislation that would allow juveniles in Illinois who are arrested for but not charged with certain crimes to have the arrests expunged from their records; Emanuel said, “This is giving kids a fresh start and a way, in my view, of getting a job and, most importantly, a college education”

Fri, 05/30/2014 - 1:28pm

Office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a tentative agreement in which U of I Health System would continue operating the Englewood Neighborhood Health Clinic, located at 641 W. 63rd St., which provides low-cost medicinal, pediatric, obstetric and vision services; U of I under its Mile Square program operates "a dozen" neighborhood health clinics that serve about 24,000 “mostly-minority clientele” a year, according to DNAinfo Chicago

Thu, 05/29/2014 - 4:06pm

Office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a Thursday press release cited a recent study that revealed nearly 60 percent of firearms used to commit crimes in Chicago between 2009 and 2013 were first purchased out of state; Report also revealed the Chicago Police Department takes seven times as many guns used in crimes off the street as police in New York City, and twice as many as the Los Angeles Police Department

Thu, 05/29/2014 - 4:04pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Thursday announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture has qualified the Great Lakes Region as one of the country’s eight “Critical Conservation Areas”; Designation makes the region eligible to compete for $138 million in USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program grants

Wed, 05/28/2014 - 3:34pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, after data revealed all-but-one of the Chicago communities representing the top 20 percent of marijuana arrests is predominantly black, ordered Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy to publically explain the disparity; Chicago Police in 2013, after a city ordinance allowed officers discretion in arresting or issuing tickets to individuals for misdemeanor marijuana possession, arrested 5,000 fewer people for possession than in 2011

Fri, 05/23/2014 - 12:22pm

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s communications director, Sarah Hamilton, who plans to resign next month, said her resignation has nothing to do with Emanuel’s recently-declining popularity; Hamilton said, “I talked about this with the mayor a month ago,” adding, “He’s a fantastic person to work with,” but, “It’s time to move on”; Hamilton will be succeeded by Kelley Quinn, who has worked for ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Chicago Public Schools

Thu, 05/22/2014 - 3:36pm

Kelley Quinn, who has served as spokeswoman for Govs. Pat Quinn and Rod Blagojevich, has been selected as Mayor Rahm Emanuel's next communications director; Sarah Hamilton, who has served as Emanuel’s communications director since December 2011, on Thursday announced plans to resign next month

Mon, 05/19/2014 - 4:14pm

Capitol Fax publisher Rich Miller posted a survey on his website asking readers if they agreed with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to increase property taxes by $250 million to fund two of the city’s six pension systems; Out of 979 responses, 73 percent of participants said they disagreed, 19 percent ruled in favor of the mayor’s proposal and eight percent voted as being unsure

Fri, 05/16/2014 - 4:03pm

While speaking with Phil Ponce on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” Mayor Emanuel admitted that he has alienated voters with his unwavering political decisions and added he might be able to benefit from being “smoother around the edges”; When shown the results of a recent Chicago Sun Times poll that determined only 29 percent of those surveyed currently support the mayor, Emanuel responded, “Thank God the election is not today.” 

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