Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has a thing for construction cranes. The mayor was known to ask for regular reports from the city’s buildings department on...

Commercial property owners in Chicago are required by law to provide recycling services, but a new report shows the city makes virtually no effort...

City Planning and Development Commissioner David Reifman is stepping down from his post after four years, exiting the key city development post as his...

Chicago’s mayoral candidates are skeptical at best and hostile at worst to Elon Musk’s proposal to build a 17-mile underground express route between the...

With the city locked down amid wind chills pushing 50 degrees below zero, Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a rare order Wednesday instructing building inspectors...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to hire AECOM to build the controversial police and fire training academy on the West Side, despite the firm’s somewhat...

Emanuel says Sterling Bay will revise Lincoln Yards plans Even after Alderman Brian Hopkins rejected Sterling Bay’s plans for a soccer stadium and entertainment...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel suggested the best place for a Chicago casino would be the city’s Far Southeast Side, saying it shouldn’t go Downtown or...

State lawmakers and Chicago mayors have spent decades floating the concept of a casino in the city that would generate tax money for education,...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday threw cold water on the growing number of proposals to increase the costs of buying and selling property in...