Unlike Daley, he’s aiming for an outsider The candidates Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is talking to during his national search for Chicago’s next schools chief fall into two camps: innovators and reformers.

During the mayoral campaign, candidate Carol Moseley Braun chided opponent Rahm Emanuel’s fundraising prowess.

Mayor Richard Daley today kicked off a “Neighborhood Appreciation Tour” that he said will take him around Chicago in his final weeks in office to thank those who helped him get things done in their communities. Appearing at the dedication of a drug tr…

Mayor-elect’s team trying to determine whom he can count on as alliesIn Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s political war room, there’s an aldermanic scorecard to determine who’s with him, who isn’t and who falls between.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, who had been in talks with Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel about the top police job here, says he has decided to remain in Philadelphia after weeks of difficult contemplation about a possible return…