A White House official says Chicago taxpayers won't be paying for the upcoming G-8 and NATO summits in which leaders from around the world will descend on the city.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is defending Bill Daley's tenure as the White House chief of staff. Daley's resignation was announced Monday, one year after replacing Emanuel in the position.
Arguments over whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate a 2004 homicide case involving a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley and current White House Chief of Staff William Daley were set Wednesday for March 6 by a Cook County judge.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and wife Amy Rule popped up at the White House Sunday to attend a glitzy star-filled reception for Kennedy Center honorees. The trip to Washington was not on Emanuel's public schedule.
When the Emanuel brothers — Rahm, Ari and Zeke — were growing up, they got into fights after being called “kikes” and found their family being called “n-----lovers” because their mother brought home African-American friends. Those are two stories finding their way into a memoir Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel has written about his exceptional family, titled Growing Up Emanuel.
