Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/mayor-rahm-emanuel/page/3/)
With the Democratic establishment increasingly catering to moneyed interests, a major progressive group aims to build grassroots leadership through local elections.
Despite Barack Obama’s verbal assurances that his presidential center will benefit the surrounding community, many residents want a written guarantee that black families won’t be pushed out.
The city is overdue for rent stabilization measures that would help stem gentrification and displacement.
The inspector general found that CPD’s poor oversight led to unnecessary arrests that wasted millions and hurt black and brown communities.
Public investment in infrastructure and schools would create more jobs than corporate incentives, a new analysis shows.
With the police department’s discriminatory database allegedly sparking deportations, immigrant and African-American groups are teaming up to challenge it.
In the absence of a consent decree and independent monitor, The Chicago Reporter is tracking CPD’s progress on police reform.
The Justice Department made 99 recommendations to reform the Chicago Police Department. In the absence of a consent decree, we’re tracking CPD’s progress.
In reversing his stance on a consent decree for Chicago police, the mayor continues to resist ceding control to those directly affected by abusive policing.
Racist emails, patronage, questionable TIF spending, school funding shortfalls, violence and youth joblessness signal how the mayor is failing to move the city forward.