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accountability.md

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 From day one Mayor Emanuel has worked to restore faith in government by changing the culture of City Hall. The Mayor’s first act in office was signing a series of executive orders to strengthen ethics rules and close the revolving door between lobbying and government. Since then, the City has passed five sweeping ethics reform ordinances, replaced the entire Board of Ethics, strengthened disclosure requirements for lobbyists, and established an independent budget office to serve as a watchdog for taxpayer dollars.
 
 In addition, the administration has brought a new level of accountability to City Hall by creating a real-time lobbyist disclosure site, taking away employee credit cards, and going after companies that violate women- and minority-owned business requirements. Mayor Emanuel expanded the scope of the Office of the Inspector General, and brought, for the first time, every city agency and department under oversight by an Inspector General. Under Mayor Emanuel’s leadership, the City of Chicago was dismissed from the Shakman lawsuit, ending a decade of federal oversight of the City’s hiring practices.
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 [Read more about the {{page.title}} progress made over the last eight years.]({{site.url}}/download/Moving Chicago Forward.pdf)
 
-![image of the exterior of City Hall](/assets/img/City Hall.jpg) 

arts.md

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+![Instructor and participants at SummerDance in Grant Park](/assets/img/Summerdance.jpg)
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 Since taking office in 2011, Mayor Emanuel has been an enthusiastic champion for the arts in Chicago. Mayor Emanuel’s administration oversaw the design and implementation of the city’s first cultural plan in 25 years, an inaugural Arts Education plan, plus city-wide campaigns to bring public art and theatre to every corner of Chicago. The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) now presents 2,000 cultural programs annually for an audience of more than 25 million residents and visitors, including farmers markets, concerts, film events, youth programming, and exhibitions. These investments have positioned Chicago as a global cultural powerhouse and have garnered big tourism successes: a record-breaking 57.7 million people visited Chicago in 2018, driving $15 billion into the economy and supporting more than 150,000 jobs. During Mayor Emanuel’s time in office, Chicago has been named Condé Nast Traveler’s “Best Big City in the U.S.” and Time Out’s “Best City for Having It All.” 
 
 1. DCASE guided the development of Chicago’s first **Cultural Plan** in 25 years, setting out key priorities for arts learning, elevating neighborhood cultural assets, retaining creative professionals, and amplifying Chicago’s reputation as a global cultural destination. 
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 1. Chicago is a city of festivals, with more than **700 neighborhood events** facilitated by DCASE annually including performances, films, festivals, and youth programming.
 
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economic-development.md

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+![Method Factory in Pullman](/assets/img/Method Factory.jpg) 
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 As a world-class city located at the center of the nation’s air, rail and freight networks, Chicago has tremendous strengths that position it to be a top global city in the 21st century. Mayor Emanuel has committed to ensuring that every neighborhood across the city benefits from these strengths and has focused on bringing new businesses and creating jobs by cutting red tape, offering expanded resources to small businesses, investing in infrastructure, creating more affordable housing and modernizing the city’s approach to training its workforce. 
 
 1. In 2012, Mayor Emanuel and World Business Chicago released the city’s **first regional economic growth plan** to drive Chicago’s leadership in the global economy and to drive clear, actionable strategies for economic growth and job creation in every neighborhood. 
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 1. Mayor Emanuel launched the city’s **first-ever technology plan** and ChicagoNEXT, a dedicated effort to drive growth and opportunity in Chicago’s tech community, governed by a council of industry leaders. KPMG has ranked Chicago as the sixth strongest tech hub in the world and Modis called Chicago the world’s number one emerging tech hub. 
 
 [Read more about the {{page.title}} progress made over the last eight years.]({{site.url}}/download/Moving Chicago Forward.pdf)
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education.md

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+![Image of young girl raising her hand](/assets/img/Promoting Engaged, Prepared, and Cohesive Communities.jpg) 
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 Mayor Emanuel has made investments throughout the city’s educational systems to give every child a strong foundation for success in education, career and life. Through the Mayor’s vision, the city has seen improved outcomes throughout the education pipeline. Since 2011, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students have outpaced the academic growth of national and state peers in both math and reading, while reaching historic highs for test scores, the rate of freshmen on track to graduate, high school graduation, and college enrollment rates. The city’s educational improvements extend beyond elementary and high school; Mayor Emanuel reinvented City Colleges of Chicago through its new Centers of Excellence and college-to-career focus, and also created the Star Scholarship to give hardworking CPS students free tuition and books at City Colleges. 
 
 1. Mayor Emanuel transformed Chicago from having the shortest school day of any major city in the country to a city with a full school day and a longer school year, providing students entering kindergarten with **2.5 additional years of instructional time** by high school graduation. 
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 1. In 2011, Mayor Emanuel launched the groundbreaking **College to Careers program**, designed to ensure that students gain the skills required for the careers of tomorrow. As part of this initiative, Mayor Emanuel launched Centers of Excellence at each City Colleges campus, aligning with in-demand industries like healthcare, transportation and logistics, advanced manufacturing, culinary arts and hospitality, and information technology. 
 
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environment.md

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 Mayor Emanuel believes that sustainability and economic growth go hand in hand. By increasing the efficiency of buildings and transportation, Chicago saves money, conserves resources and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. During his two terms in office, Mayor Emanuel has directed historic investments in energy efficiency, environmentally-friendly transit options and green infrastructure that will create jobs and improve residents’ quality of life. Mayor Emanuel also made the air cleaner for residents by closing the last two coal-fired plans in the city and cracking down on petroleum coke facilities on the Southeast Side.
 
 1. Chicago has **doubled down on reducing emissions** while also growing the city’s economy. During his second term in office, Mayor Emanuel issued an Executive Order committing Chicago to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2025, matching the original commitment made in the Paris Agreement. The city has already achieved 40 percent of its Paris Agreement carbon goal and increased the number of associated jobs by seven percent. 
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 1. In 2013, Mayor Emanuel introduced a **transit-oriented development** ordinance which is creating opportunities for more housing to be developed near transit, supporting affordability and walkability. Mayor Emanuel has led two major revisions to the ordinance since, extending incentives to high-frequency, high-capacity bus corridors. 
 
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financial-reforms.md

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 When Mayor Emanuel took office eight years ago, he inherited a structural operating budget shortfall of more than $630 million and a nearly bankrupt pension system that threatened the financial security of the workers, retirees and citizens of Chicago. Through efficiencies, reforms, tighter spending controls and strong fiscal management, by 2019 the shortfall had been reduced by 85 percent. Mayor Emanuel has grown the City’s reserves and improved its liquidity to mitigate current and future risks, to protect against emergencies or unanticipated budget shortfalls while continuing to make critical investments in improved city services and additional programs for our children. 
 
 1. The Emanuel Administration achieved savings and efficiencies from strategic energy and utility purchasing, reducing duplicative operations across departments, transitioning garbage collection and other services to a grid model, and finding savings in the City’s healthcare costs. In total, Mayor Emanuel has achieved more than **$720 million in savings, reforms and efficiencies** since taking office.
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 1. Mayor Emanuel has worked to develop **long-term solutions to a series of pension problems** that threatened the financial security of the city’s workers, retirees and the future of our city. All four funds are now on actuarially-based funding plans set by state statute, and each fund has a dedicated funding source in place. Without these reforms, the City’s four pension funds would likely become insolvent in the 2020’s.
 
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housing.md

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 Since taking office in 2011, Mayor Emanuel has supported affordable housing in every neighborhood by expanding the Affordable Requirements Ordinance, implementing and expanding transit-oriented development, and building or preserving more than 60,000 affordable homes and apartments. Mayor Emanuel elevated housing and homelessness as key policy issues when he launched the Department of Housing in 2018 and engaged stakeholders across the city in creating the new Five-Year Housing Plan. From 2011 to 2018, the annual Point in Time Count decreased by 17 percent, representing a substantial decline in the number of individuals experiencing homelessness. The City also piloted innovative programs like co-located public housing and library projects designed by world-class architects and new, effective homelessness interventions like the Flexible Housing Subsidy Program, rapidly linking frequent utilizers of emergency services to stable, supportive housing. 
 
 1. In December 2018, City Council approved Mayor Emanuel’s **Five-Year Housing Plan**, including $1.4 billion in city support and leveraged resources for housing initiatives between 2019-2023. The plan details a commitment to improve and preserve more than 41,000 units of affordable housing with a focus on innovative programs to support homeownership, affordability, and supportive housing for vulnerable populations.
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 1. In 2015, Mayor Emanuel announced the **End Veterans Homelessness Initiative (EVHI)** coupled by the Plan to End Veteran Homelessness. The effort has helped house more than 2,500 veterans since January 2015.
 
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index.md

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 **Eight years ago, Mayor Emanuel campaigned on a promise to bring change to Chicago communities and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the city.** When he took office, the City faced a financial crisis—with a $635 million structural budget deficit. Chicago’s students had one of the shortest school days in the nation and residents were facing record unemployment rates and a loss of confidence across the city.
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 From day one, Mayor Emanuel aligned his priorities to take on the hard work of securing Chicago’s future. Working with residents, business and community leaders, he worked to do what was necessary, instead of what was easy, to put Chicago in a better, stronger position and to ensure that Chicago remains a vibrant, sustainable and thriving city in which to live, work and raise a family.
 
 Over the past eight years, these efforts have included:

infrastructure.md

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+![Image of bridge reconstruction](/assets/img/Ensuring the Provision of Critical Infrastructure.jpg) 
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 Chicago’s rise has been fueled by its place at the center of the nation’s transportation system, from its role as a nexus for highways and railways due to its proximity to Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. Mayor Emanuel believes that the city’s future depends on modern infrastructure and has invested accordingly through initiatives like Building a New Chicago, Building on Burnham, 311 Modernization and a historic investment in the Chicago Transit Authority. Over the last eight years, the Emanuel administration has sought and secured more than $4.6 billion in federal funding for Chicago transit and has directed $35 billion to be spent on construction and renovation for schools, parks, transit, roads, bridges, and water and sewer main replacement, creating an estimated 150,000 jobs.
 
 1. Launched in 2012, **Building a New Chicago** is an $8 billion infrastructure program and one of the largest investments in infrastructure in the city’s history. The program has touched nearly every aspect of the city’s infrastructure network and is supporting more than 30,000 jobs.
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 1. Since 2011, more than $11 billion in airfield, passenger terminal, and infrastructure investments have been secured for **Chicago’s airports**. The O’Hare 21 program will deliver the biggest terminal expansion in ORD history. Over the next decade the $8.5 billion initiative will usher in capacity-building and connectivity-enhancing projects within and around the terminals to streamline travel and upgrade the passenger experience.
 
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new-americans.md

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 Mayor Emanuel has been committed to making Chicago the most immigrant-friendly city in the nation by improving access to services, expanding new and existing immigrant businesses, and welcoming and celebrating Chicago’s diverse immigrant communities. Throughout its history, Chicago has benefited from the immeasurable cultural and economic contributions of its immigrant populations, and from the rich fabric of distinct and vibrant neighborhoods they have helped to create. Over the past eight years, Chicago has built momentum and established itself as a place where all are welcome to call home. 
 
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public-safety.md

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+![Image of community event with CPD](/assets/img/CAPS.jpg) 
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 After seeing the fewest murders in Chicago in 2014 since 1965, the city endured a traumatic and unprecedented rise in gun violence in 2016. That September, Mayor Emanuel called on all Chicagoans to join in a comprehensive plan to confront gun violence that included: strengthening law enforcement resources; increased investments in violence prevention; advocacy for legislation to address gun violence; deepened economic development and employment opportunities to treat the root causes of violence; and community trust and legitimacy between the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the communities it officers serve.  
 
 Since that call to action by Mayor Emanuel, CPD has added more officers, increased the numbers of sergeants, field training officers, and detectives, substantially increased training, reformed oversight, and introduced state of the art technology to fight gun violence. Though much work still needs to be done, the strategy has led to marked decline from the peak of violence in 2016.  
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-![Image of community event with CPD](/assets/img/CAPS.jpg)