Rahm Emanuel News

Chicago - Continuing the 20-city bus tour in celebration of achievements in the middle market, GE Capital's Roadshow For Growth visited Chicago and highlighted the investment commitments the firm has made in the windy city.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, speaking at Center for American Progress, joined the gun debate fray. He is pushing for universal background checks on those that want to buy firearms.

Chicago - Voter registration and enthusiasm are depressed in Chicago and Cook County, hometown of Barack Obama, compared to 2008. The area hosted a huge registered voter increase benefiting the president in 2008.

Chicago - While Chicago remains a true blue vote-geyser for Democrats, about 250,000 fewer Chicagoens registered to vote this election cycle than in 2008, according to Langdon Neal, the city’s election board chairman.

Chicago - Drive-by shootings are a daily occurrence now in the windy city, and police are working overtime just to keep them from escalating more.

Chicago - Unemployment in Obama’s adopted state of Illinois crept up to 9.1 percent in August, from 8.9 percent in July, raising concerns about a sluggish economy.

Chicago - Chicago parents hoping the courts would order teachers back to their classrooms in Chicago may have to wait days for a ruling, according city attorney’s spokesman Roderick Drew.

Chicago - As terrifying as it must be to walk the streets of in cities like Tehran, Cairo or Khartoum where international embassies are burning and the yellow flames from explosions singe the night air, it seems a weekend in Chicago could be just as dangerous.

Chicago - A 12-year-old boy was one of six Chicagoans wounded in drive-by shootings and robberies in Chicago on Thursday, day four of a massive teacher walk out in the public schools system.

Chicago - Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former top Obama aide, has locked horns with Chicago’s teachers union over issues like a need for teacher evaluations, taxpayer-funded benefits and the merits of a 16 percent pay raise.