Chris Buck
Rahm Emanuel don't sleep much. You can see it in his eyes, constantly shadow in dark circles. He often in the middle of the night gets up to check his email and is out of bed at 5: 15 hours He drinks coffee and scans the morning newspapers on the drive from his apartment near Town Hall to the city campus of the University of Illinois. Then he starts his training.
"I give it to you if you're really that interested," says the 51-year-old Mayor of Chicago, sitting in a meeting room City Hall one day in late June. "Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I swim a mile in a 50-meter swimming pool. I do a short breast exercise. I run two miles home. Tuesday and Thursday, I 25 miles on the bike on random level 15, 15 minutes on the elliptical trainer. You do not want to know this, but I do 100 sit-ups, 50 push-ups, and a weight routine. Saturday, I cycle 20 miles outside. " On Sunday, Emanuel lives a yoga class, to the side effects of undo are walking and cycling.
An aide hands Emanuel a print of his schedule. "Oooh, is busy today," he says, sounding not unpleased. It is 7: 30 a.m., and Emanuel says he is already finished talks with the Commissioners of the water and the cultural affairs departments. In a few minutes, he will leave with his security detail to respond to the annual meeting of the membership of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau, "a 12 billion dollar industry for the city," Emanuel notes. Later in the day he will meet with representatives of the city public employees trade unions to discuss contracts. He will then receive a visit of the Israeli Ambassador to the United States and attend a wake for a recently deceased police officer.
Emanuel rehydrates as he talks, sipping a tall glass of water and the refilling of a pitcher on the side table under him. He says that he arrives at the Agency after the exercise, full of ideas and eager to share them. "You can only count laps for so long," he laughs. "My employees hate my training."
In the past two decades, Rahm Emanuel is one of the most visible and divisive figures in American politics. As a democratic party operative and a member of Congress, he was known for his willingness to do anything to win and his penchant for profanity. President Barack Obama, for whom Emanuel as White House chief of staff, served like to joke that when Emanuel lost a part of the middle finger on his right hand, he was rendered mute. His finger was broken while using a meat slicer in high school, not, as it was later rumored, while serving in the Israeli army.
As Mayor, Emanuel has shown a more subdued side. He can still be irritable and impatient — on 21 July, he stalked from an interview with a local TV reporter who asked about his decision to send his three children to private school. There are still no reports of his public deploy his favorite four-letter word in City Hall. Since his election in February the partisan slash-and-burn artist has business leaders investing in Chicago while courting quest, endorsed at least in public, to take part of the city's powerful public worker unions, most of whom are his main opponent in the mayoral race, Gery Chico. Emanuel draws distinction between himself and Republicans as Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie that war with employees of their Member States; He insists that he wishes to cooperate with the Chicago unions to find savings. "The bottom line is this is a new Rahm," says Paul Green, Director of the Institute of politics at the Roosevelt University in Chicago. "He is the atoning, let's work together-Rahm. He is not the warmongering, in-your-face Rahm. He is incredibly sympathetic. "
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