* As subscribers were told earlier this morning, Mayor Rahm Emanuel will visit Springfield today and testify to a House committee…
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday makes his first physical trip to Springfield since he took office in Chicago last year.
Emanuel’s office confirmed he will testify at 10 a.m. before the Illinois House of Representatives Committee on Personnel and Pensions.
This isn’t the mayor’s first dealing with Springfield. He’s been known to work the phones (i.e. for Chicago speed cameras) and has a team in place, but this time, he’s traveling there himself. […]
Though the meeting is the only thing on the mayor’s Tuesday public schedule, sources say he has an open-ended return to Chicago.
* The hearing begins at 10 o’clock. Emanuel will probably testify soon after it starts. Follow live Tweets here. You can find the General Assembly’s live audio/video feed for hearing room 114 here. The folks at BlueRoomStream.com have also provided us with a live embed…
Live broadcast by Ustream
* Emanuel is not expected to speak to the media, but my intern Owen is on the scene, so we may have some video later.
