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Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served previously as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 5th congressional district from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 to take up his current position in the Obama Administration.

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School zone, danger zone

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

After saying good-bye at the corner of West 70th Street and South Stewart Avenue Jaleel Carr, 13, walks to Yale Elementary School April 22, 2013. | Jessica Koscielniak ~ Sun-Times Tall and beaming, Diana Carr guards the vacant lot at 70th and Ste ...
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Tangling in the Shadow Of Wrigley’s Ivy Walls

Source: The New York Times

CHICAGO — About the time the first pitch was thrown at Wrigley Field in a game between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals on a recent night, a local group, the East Lake View Neighbors , called a meeting to order two blocks a ...
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Chicago Teachers Union begins 3-day citywide march

Source: The Times

CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Teachers Union is launching a three-day march around the city in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools. It starts Saturday and organizers are billing it as a march for 'educati ...
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Infrastructure Constraints Loom as Texas Grows

Source: KUHF Houston Galveston

Touting Texas’ low taxes and light regulations, Gov. Rick Perry has relished trying to poach jobs from other states. In February, he described building a business in California as “next to impossible.” Last month, he warned Illinois entr ...
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Michigan Avenue merchants fear they'll be the victims of robbery hoax

Source: Chicago Tribune

The bizarre saga of a 68-year-old woman who said she was forced to hand over jewelry valued at more than $135,000 to a group of menacing young men on the bustling Magnificent Mile reverberated around the country. Some 36 hours l ...
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Casino bill would give city unparalleled control

Source: Chicago Tribune

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state regulators from taking away its license. The legislation also would ...
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CTA chief: Red Line inconvenience will produce ‘absolute best’ railroad

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Shortly before the kickoff of the Red Line South reconstruction, CTA President Forrest Claypool talked with Sun-Times Transportation Reporter Rosalind Rossi about a project that Claypool says will give the South Side “the absolute best” railroad in the r ...
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Teachers elect Lewis to 2nd term as CTU head

Source: Chicago Tribune

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, an often controversial leader who took on Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a strike last fall and has been leading the fight against the district’s plan to close schools, was reelected ...
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Open thread: The weeks in review

Source: Chicago Tribune

The "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but limited to the topics brought up in our tradi ...
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