Rahm Emanuel

CTL-E-1179 · Person · unspecified

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Mayor of Chicago (2011–2019) whose administration carried out the 2013 closure of 50 Chicago public schools.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:emanuel; source research type(s): person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Chalkbeat — 'Chicago closed 50 schools in 2013. What happened next?' (2023-07-25)

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