CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel won a second term Tuesday in a runoff election campaign that hinged on serious financial challenges facing the nation’s third-largest city and the brusque management style of the former White House chief of staff.
Incumbent Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia must unite the city’s minorities to topple him.
As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel makes his first bid for re-election in the Windy City, his opponent is running a populist campaign against Emanuel’s connections to the one percent. It is an easy argument to make with the big money donors Rahm has, especially his deep pocketed Republican backer, Billionaire Kenneth Griffin.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is fighting for his political life in the city’s first ever mayoral runoff election, and now a staffer for challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is revealing that their internal polling is showing there is “no way” Rahm can win re-election.
As the runoff election to determine who will be the next mayor of Chicago grows near, New York Magazine has proclaimed that challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is the Windy City’s Bill de Blasio.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has unexpectedly found himself in the political battle of his life with a whole host of important sectors of the electorate lining up against his re-election. Now, a powerful union has launched a brutal ad slamming the mayor over his record.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been one of the more famously partisan left-wingers in recent memory, but despite that reputation, he has been the happy recipient of millions in donations from Republicans in this political fight of his life. And desperate for support, Emanuel is turning to the city’s small GOP contingent to regain office.
In a campaign that has been short on substance but long on populist anger, Rahm Emanuel is trying a new tactic in his latest campaign ad by playing Mr. nice guy, wearing a v-neck sweater and speaking in the sort of soothing tones that belie his harsh, well-deserved, tough-talking reputation.
Rahm Emanuel’s path to re-election as Chicago’s mayor just got a little murkier. On Monday a large group of African American ministers led by Operation Push activist Jesse Jackson endorsed Rahm’s opponent, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
Rahm Emanuel is the first mayor in Chicago’s history forced into a run-off election.
Despite having tens of millions in his campaign coffers Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel could not reach the 50 percent threshold to win re-election this month.
Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor and President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, failed to win re-election on Tuesday in the Democratic primary—and will head to a runoff—a major embarrassment and defeat for the cutthroat Democrat and for Obama himself.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared headed to an April runoff Tuesday after voters weighed his record on school closings, crime and jobs in deciding whether to award the former White House chief of staff a second term.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist and Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet said that former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s “abrasive personality” and “brashness” in addition to “a rough four years” of governing were hindering Emanuel’s campaign for re-election as Chicago’s Mayor
Just days before Chicago elects a mayor, President Obama will visit his home city, perhaps as a way to buck up the campaign of his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
CHICAGO (AP) — A juvenile has been charged in the December mugging of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s teenage son.
A new book says former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel wanted to elbow Valerie Jarrett aside, perhaps to the U.S. Senate.
The growing divide between mainstream and progressive Democrats is coming to a head in Chicago. There, a progressive group that supports Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president is weighing in against Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Monday, Chicago residents will begin hearing a 60-second radio ad featuring Obama endorsing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s reelection. In the radio ad Obama highlights his own Chicago background and Emanuel’s campaigns for jobs, longer school days, and a higher minimum wage in the city.
The 17-year-old son of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was robbed Friday night by two unidentified men outside of the Mayor’s home. The men put him in a chokehold, struck him in the face, and stole his cell phone. Officials say Zach