CHICAGO—Mayor Rahm Emanuel, known for keeping vise-like control over Chicago and his own political image, finds himself in the weakest position of his long public career as he struggles to respond to a police scandal, claims of cover-ups at City Hall, and calls for his resignation.
But the former White House chief of staff has said repeatedly that he will not step down.
The nation’s third-largest city has no process for a mayor to be recalled. And most of the cries for Emanuel to resign have come from grassroots activists and residents, not from the city’s political powerbrokers. The next election—should he seek another term—isn’t until 2019.
No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago.
