The Latest Breaking News from Rahm Emanuel

Shohei Ohtani’s Dog Gets a Giant Replica Visa From the U.S. Embassy in Japan

What an offseason for the Ohtani household.

Sports Illustrated · Jan 12, 2024

City’s top tourism official stepping down after less than two years on the job

Choose Chicago President and CEO Lynn Osmond announced Thursday she would resign effective Jan. 31, just 20 months into her four-year contract to focus her ‘time and energies on a family health matter.’

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 11, 2024

Shohei Ohtani visits US Embassy in Japan and his dog gets mock visa

Shohei Ohtani has visited the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

The Independent UK · Jan 11, 2024

Prosecutors ‘didn’t have the decency’ to call their key witness in Ed Burke’s corruption trial, defense says in closing arguments

“They ran an undercover investigation on Mr. Burke for 30 months — with the star witness being Danny Solis — and they didn’t have the decency to bring him to you,” said attorney Joseph Duffy.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 15, 2023

Johnson urged to ‘find solutions that work for the airlines’ to salvage O’Hare expansion

Days after announcing his departure from the job growth agency known as World Business Chicago, Michael Fassnacht urged City Hall and the two major carriers to work out their differences on a massive project that started at $8.7 billion but has ballooned to $12.1 billion.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 6, 2023

After 8 years of ‘good trouble,’ Juanita Irizarry is leaving Friends of the Parks

Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, furious over the legal battle that forced movie mogul George Lucas to cancel plans for a $743 million museum on the lakefront, derisively branded Irizarry’s organization “Friends of the Parking Lot.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 5, 2023

What defines Pritzker-Johnson relationship so far? Tension

Don’t be fooled by the mayor’s winning smile and soaring, preacher’s son rhetoric, nor by the governor’s make-nice statements from the podium. There is real frustration and tension behind the scenes on both sides.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 4, 2023

Chicago must keep pushing forward on O’Hare expansion project

United and American Airlines want to scale back or slow down the massive project to replace Terminal 2. Both Illinois senators and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who forged the plan with the airlines, say a deal’s a deal.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 3, 2023

Search for military personnel continues after Osprey crash off coast of southern Japan

Japanese authorities say they have handed over pieces of the wreckage from an U.S. Air Force Osprey that crashed off southwestern Japan to the U.S. military, as the search continued for seven missing servicemembers

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2023

Five years ago today: Butcher paper signals FBI raid on offices of ‘untouchable’ Ed Burke — and changes Chicago history

Reporters could only speculate about what prompted the raid, but ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot admits she “rode that wave ‘till it crashed on the beach.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 29, 2023