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Chicago Launches Green Taxi Program

On Friday, which happened to be Earth Day, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced the city's new Green Taxi Program. The initiative will reimburse taxicab companies that use hybrid vehicles or vehicles powered by alternative fuel. Unlike gasoline-powered cars, hybrids get better fuel economy, have cleaner emissions and do...

Chicago Mayor Race: Meet Rahm Emanuel's Rivals

Rahm Emanuel has made it to election day. After nearly five months of wild campaigning that took Emanuel's mayoral candidacy to the edge in the Illinois Supreme Court, Chicago residents are finally ready to go to the polls and vote on a ballot that for the first time in over 60 years lacks a sitting mayor seeking...

Chicago Heads to Polls to Choose New Mayor

CHICAGO -- The campaign to replace Mayor Richard Daley has unfolded unlike any in Chicago's history, and almost certainly will end with a mayor unlike anyone who's run City Hall before. Voters in Tuesday's election will cast ballots that for the first time in more than two decades do not have Daley's name on the list. And...

Richard Daley Pulls a Bloomberg? Chicago Mayor Faces Blizzard Criticism [PICTURES]

It's been a bad winter to be a mayor. Last month New Yorkers piled on Michael Bloomberg for his handling of the blizzard that paralyzed the city. (Newark's Cory Booker, on the other hand, kept constituents happy by responding to individual complaints on Twitter.) Now it's Chicago mayor Richard Daley's turn to defend his...

China's Hu Meets Business Leaders, Visits School

CHICAGO -- Chicago's mayor courted Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday during a whirlwind visit that included a tour of a local high school and stop at a business expo in an effort to boost economic ties between the world's second-largest economy and companies in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest. "We in Chicago, we...

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The Peril Of Rahm Emanuel's Public Private Partnerships

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing a bold new plan to rebuild the city's aging infrastructure.

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Daley, Rahm Clash On Longer School Day Plan

While former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has thrown some veiled criticism at successor Rahm Emanuel in the past , the man who led the city for 22 years is coming down hard on the new mayor's longer school day initiative. "

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05/01/12 The Peril Of Rahm Emanuel's Public Private Partnerships Source: The Huffington Post - Local Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing a bold new plan to rebuild the city's aging infrastructure.
05/01/12 Daley, Rahm Clash On Longer School Day Plan Source: The Huffington Post - Local While former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has thrown some veiled criticism at successor Rahm Emanuel in the past , the man who led the city for 22 years is coming down hard on the new mayor's longer school day initiative. "