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January 26th, 2011

An analysis of tweets has found that residents of the southeastern U.S. swear the most compared to the rest of the nation. (more)

January 25th, 2011

The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to put Rahm Emanuel’s name back on the mayoral ballot. (more)

January 24th, 2011

Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been kicked off the ballot in Chicago’s mayoral election, The Chicago Sun Times reports(more)

January 19th, 2011

The campaign to be the next mayor of Chicago continues to develop largely along racial lines. On Wednesday former Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley Braun said that former President Clinton betrayed minority communities by campaigning for former chief of staff to President Obama Rahm Emanuel. (more)

January 13th, 2011

President Bill Clinton will appear at a campaign rally with Rahm Emanuel in Chicago next week.  (more)

January 11th, 2011

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” (more)

January 8th, 2011

Rahm Emanuel is in a solid lead in the first public poll for the Chicago mayoral race taken since the field has shrunk to four major contenders: Emanuel, Gery Chico, Carol Moseley Braun and Miguel Del Valle. (more)

January 6th, 2011

The Washington Post reported earlier today that President Obama has chosen William Daley to replace interim Chief of Staff Pete Rouse who stepped in after Rahm Emanuel resigned in October. The official announcement is to be made by the president at 2:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon. (more)

January 4th, 2011

President Obama is considering William Daley to replace Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, it was reported Monday. The JPMorgan executive is the brother of Richard Daley — whom Emanuel in turn is looking to replace as Chicago mayor. (more)

January 1st, 2011

A dramatic 2010 in Chicago politics ended with one last flourish Friday night as U.S. Rep. Danny Davis dropped out of the race to succeed Mayor Daley and threw his support behind Carol Moseley Braun. (more)

December 29th, 2010

Mayoral hopeful Rep. Danny Davis warned former President Bill Clinton — who will be campaigning for rival Rahm Emanuel — to stay out of Chicago politics if he wants to maintain warm relations with African Americans — and told me President Obama should remain neutral as well. (more)

December 26th, 2010

CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign in support of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s bid for Chicago mayor. (more)

December 23rd, 2010

CHICAGO — Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor although he spent much of the last two years living in Washington while working for President Barack Obama, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners ruled Thursday. (more)

December 17th, 2010

The mayoral-race mystery of where candidate Rahm Emanuel stored boxes of personal items has been solved. (more)

December 17th, 2010

1.) Establishment Republicans conflicted over whose back to pat for busted omnibus bill — Majority Leader Harry Reid folded during last night’s high-stakes po(r)ker game. Now Beltway types are racing to cement a narrative for exactly what made the GOP so bold. “The defeat of a pork-laden $1.1 trillion ‘omnibus’ spending bill in the Senate Thursday night was the first serious indication after the Nov. 2 election that the Tea Party movement has staying power and will be a force into 2011,” writes The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward. “Some Republicans on Capitol Hill said Thursday night that GOP leadership played a pivotal role as well. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was said to have pressured key GOP lawmakers to stand firm against the legislation, though some in leadership said the conference was fairly united against it from the beginning.” Less, uh, established folks, like Sen. Tom Coburn’s beard, were more willing to give all credit to the Tea Party: “It was 100 percent grassroots…The American people took it down,” said Coburn spokesman John Hart. Also, bitter Democrats, one of whom dejectedly chalked up the broke-down omnibus to Congressional Republicans being “a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tea Party.” (more)

December 15th, 2010

CHICAGO — Taking center stage at the Chicago Board of Elections hearing Wednesday was Lori Halpin, the woman who currently rents Rahm Emanuel’s North Side home with her husband Rob. (more)

December 15th, 2010

CHICAGO (AP) — With Rahm Emanuel off the witness stand and back on the campaign trail in his bid for Chicago mayor, a hearing about whether his name should be on the ballot turns to other witnesses, including a woman who rented Emanuel’s house after he went to Washington, D.C., to work for the president. (more)

December 14th, 2010

CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel, who left a powerful job with President Barack Obama at the White House to move back to Chicago and run for mayor, endured nearly 12 hours of questioning Tuesday from everyone from attorneys to a woman named Queen Sister — all intent on keeping his name off the ballot. (more)

December 13th, 2010

When Rahm Emanuel originally filed his 2009 Illinois tax return, he indicated he was only a “part-year resident’’ of the state that year, since he had moved to Washington D.C. to serve as President Obama’s chief of staff. (more)

December 10th, 2010

Rahm Emanuel will be the first witness in an evidentiary hearing next week, where 25 Chicago residents, or their legal counsel, will question him about their objections to his run for Mayor. The complainants don’t believe he meets the residency requirement to run for Mayor of Chicago. (more)

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