Chicago convention managers and Mayor Rahm Emanuel advanced plans for a new arena and makeover of Navy Pier, the city's top tourist attraction.

Thomas Hynes, the former Cook County Democratic Party boss, is paid $80,000 a year by DePaul University for lobbying at City Hall. His son Matt Hynes used to lobby for DePaul and now, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $168,996-a-year intergovernmental affairs director, normally would have a central role in a deal like the one the mayor announced Thursday that will direct ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s allies in the Teamsters union leadership have backed away from trying to represent airport janitors who work for a private company the mayor hired last year over the objections of other labor leaders. The Service Employees International Union had complained that hundreds of its members lost their jobs because Emanuel signed a five-year, $99.4 million janitorial contract ...

City also plans other development near McCormick Place, a redesign for Navy Pier and a reconfiguration for congested section of lakefront bike trailMayor Rahm Emanuel is expected to unveil Thursday a $173 million plan to build a 10,000-seat arena for the DePaul Blue Demons next to McCormick Place, couching it as part of a broader blueprint for boosting tourism, much ...

A clear majority of voters in a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll don't think Mayor Rahm Emanuel has done enough to revitalize the city's economy.