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Chicago Launches Green Taxi Program
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsOn Friday, which happened to be Earth Day, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced the city's new Green Taxi Program. The initiative will reimburse taxicab companies that use hybrid vehicles or vehicles powered by alternative fuel. Unlike gasoline-powered cars, hybrids get better fuel economy, have cleaner emissions and do well at slow speeds or idling. "The Green Taxi Program provides an incentive to the taxi industry to reduce carbon emissions," Norma Reyes, Chicago's commissioner of the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, said at the Earth Day Celebration at Daley ...
Chicago Mayor Race: Meet Rahm Emanuel's Rivals
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsRahm Emanuel has made it to election day. After nearly five months of wild campaigning that took Emanuel's mayoral candidacy to the edge in the Illinois Supreme Court, Chicago residents are finally ready to go to the polls and vote on a ballot that for the first time in over 60 years lacks a sitting mayor seeking re-election. Emanuel remains the clear favorite, but there are a few candidates who can still give the former White House chief of staff a run for his money. In no particular order, here is a quick breakdown of Emanuel's competition. Carol Moseley Braun In 1993, Braun became the ...
Chicago Heads to Polls to Choose New Mayor
By not in system - AOL NewsCHICAGO -- The campaign to replace Mayor Richard Daley has unfolded unlike any in Chicago's history, and almost certainly will end with a mayor unlike anyone who's run City Hall before. Voters in Tuesday's election will cast ballots that for the first time in more than two decades do not have Daley's name on the list. And they may select the city's first Jewish mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Or the first black woman, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun. Or the first Hispanic mayor - either former Chicago public schools president Gery Chico or City Clerk Miguel del Valle. Emanuel has been the ...
Rahm Emanuel May Clinch Chicago Mayor's Race on Tuesday
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyCHICAGO -- The election to replace Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago is Tuesday and Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff, is so far ahead that the only question is, will he win outright with more than 50 percent of the vote or be forced into a run-off on April 5 against whoever places what may be a distant second. "Can I count on ya?...Hey buddy," Emanuel, 51, said in his clipped tone as he approached shoppers at a Target store on Cottage Grove near 85th, on the city's South Side on Saturday, as he focused over the weekend on turning out the African-American vote. At the ...
Richard Daley Pulls a Bloomberg? Chicago Mayor Faces Blizzard Criticism [PICTURES]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIt's been a bad winter to be a mayor. Last month New Yorkers piled on Michael Bloomberg for his handling of the blizzard that paralyzed the city. (Newark's Cory Booker, on the other hand, kept constituents happy by responding to individual complaints on Twitter.) Now it's Chicago mayor Richard Daley's turn to defend his winter-weather response. In a press conference today he praised citizens, city crews and emergency response teams for their efforts, but added that the city has "a long way to go" before life returns to normal. The Chicago Tribune reports that the mayor has been ...
China's Hu Meets Business Leaders, Visits School
By not in system - AOL NewsCHICAGO -- Chicago's mayor courted Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday during a whirlwind visit that included a tour of a local high school and stop at a business expo in an effort to boost economic ties between the world's second-largest economy and companies in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest. "We in Chicago, we in the region, we in the Midwest want to act as a gateway for Chinese business investment into America, and at the same time we want to make sure that our businesses are a gateway into China as well," Daley said after squiring Hu to the expo where about a dozen Chinese ...
Why Obama Chose Businessman William Daley as His Chief of Staff
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama picked former Commerce Secretary William Daley to be his new chief of staff on Thursday, bringing on board a businessman with vast political experience at a time Obama is preparing to launch his re-election bid and improve relations with the corporate community. Though the president and Daley have known each for years from Chicago politics, Obama's quick rise from the Illinois State Senate to the White House had little to do with Daley or his brother, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Daley has never been part of Obama's inner personal circle -- considered a plus because he can ...
William Daley: 5 Facts About Obama's New Chief of Staff
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsThe rumors were true: Administration sources say William Daley will serve as President Barack Obama's next chief of staff. Interim chief of staff Pete Rouse has filled the position since October, when Rahm Emanuel left the White House to run for mayor of Chicago. The chief of staff is arguably one of the most powerful positions in Washington, since the role involves direct participation in presidential decision-making and negotiations. Other high-level responsibilities include coordination of Executive Office staff, advising the president and acting as a gatekeeper to the Oval Office. So who ...
William Daley at Top of Obama List for White House Chief of Staff
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe Obama White House is considering William Daley as the new chief of staff, but no final decisions have been made, and interim chief of staff Peter Rouse still has not finalized whether he wants to stay. Daley, who lives in Chicago, is Midwest chairman for New York-based J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. and is the bank's head of corporate responsibility. He is also the brother of Mayor Richard M. Daley and a close friend and mentor to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. After Mayor Daley announced he was not seeking another term, Emanuel left the Obama White House in October to ...
Bill Clinton to Campaign for Rahm Emanuel in Chicago
By not in system - AOL NewsCHICAGO -- Former President Bill Clinton will campaign in support of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's bid for Chicago mayor. Emanuel campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Sunday that Clinton will be in Chicago in January to appear on Emanuel's behalf. A date and place have not been determined. Emanuel formally announced he would run for Chicago mayor in November, just weeks after leaving his post as President Barack Obama's chief of staff. Before his time in the Obama administration, Emanuel spent five years as a U.S. congressman for Illinois. Emanuel held various positions in ...
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