Chicago

Maya Schenwar: When it comes to teachers, Rahm Emanuel needs to sit down, shut up and listen to their more-than-reasonable demands.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking the hardline with the city's teachers' union and eschewing the negotiation table for a DNC speaking slot.

Updates on the most extreme veep nominee in a century, Goldman Sachs' free ride, yet another apparent hate crime against Muslims, and more.

The project, called Less Wall More Street, seeks to help people make the connections between the repression of Occupy, the ongoing general repression of activists beyond that, and the …

Teachers and labor activists nationally are watching high drama unfold in Chicago, where teachers have challenged u201cMayor 1%u201d Rahm Emanuel with a stunning 90 percent vote to authorize a …

In June 2012, the Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) produced a

For over 30 years, corporate America and its allies on both sides of the political aisle have carried out an assault on US workers, pushing down wages, slashing benefits …

The Chicago workersu2019 effort is important, not only on its own terms, but as a beacon of hope and an opportunity for many others to learn about a direction …

The widely celebrated Chicago workers' cooperative, formed in the wake of two factory occupations, says their former employer is going back on its promise to give workers a fair …

Rahm Emanuel and Chicago's top cop insist the measure stops short of decriminalization.