The Latest Breaking News from Rahm Emanuel

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall held Tuesday’s hearing to determine whether Elmhurst University political science professor Constance Mixon should be allowed to testify during ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s trial.

As pillars of the Chicago performing arts community, the partnership between the Joffrey and the Lyric Opera House has blossomed into something truly inspiring for our city, writes former mayor Emanuel, now the ambassador to Japan.

Resurrecting the department is a wise first step, but it needs enough staff to meet the city’s many challenges at a time of climate change and other environmental concerns.

There are things to potentially like in the mayor’s first budget. But there is an all-important issue on which the upcoming City Council budget hearings must shed considerable light: Does it all add up?

Unlike the former department scrapped by Rahm Emanuel, the new City Hall addition would not enforce pollution laws.

Final decision will be made after negotiations with Japan

Imports fell by 67% in August from the same month a year earlier, to about ¥3bn ($20.2m)

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has accused China of using “economic coercion” against Japan by banning imports of Japanese seafood in response to the release of treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, while Chinese boats continue to fish off Japan’s coasts

Li Shangfu, who has not been seen for nearly three weeks, is under house arrest, claims US ambassador to Japan