He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Joanna Dovan from the mayor's office says it is true that the city now has its lowest population of the past ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

After the mayor's death, a mob went to the hotel where one of Brown's men had been held since he was seized earlier in the day.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

"Mayor's office,schools, any public entity where youngsters can gain workforce readiness skills."

VOA: special.2009.08.20

People still look at you weird, but it's like, 'All right,he's disabled now, but it's kind of OK now.'" Matthew Sapolin is commissioner of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, and he is blind.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Clyde Haulman is the city's mayor: "I think a lot of people think of Williamsburg and think it's a museum."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

This comes just days after New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, asked the administration to rethink its decision.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Mayor Bloomberg originally supported the administration's decision to try Mohammed and four others in Manhattan's federal court.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Angering many Muscovites late last week, the mayor's press spokesman,Sergei Tsoi, told a news website that there was "no crisis situation in Moscow."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

But Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is countering the court's decision by pushing for new restrictions on guns which would still comply with Second Amendment rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

He may be known around the world as the King of Pop, but Gary Indiana mayor Rudy Clay says Michael Jackson is the city's claim to fame.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Coleman,who is 59,was mayor of St.Paul before entering the U.S.Senate in 2003.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

Earlier in the day, Mr.Putin met with Moscow's Mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel told U.S.lawmakers that three ports of entry in his city must process more than 15 million people a year, and inspect some three million incoming cars.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The opposition leader says Saakashvili understands perfectly well that he no longer has full control of the capital,and that the parliament, presidential office, ministries and mayor's office are not working.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

The event was co-hosted by the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities and the Project Access organization and attended by an enthusiastic crowd of more than 200 guests, many with disabilities.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Berlin's mayor,Klaus Wowereit, unveiled the exhibit.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The DA also won control of the Western Cape provincial assembly due largely to public satisfaction with the performance of its leader, Helen Zille, as mayor of Cape Town, the country's second largest city.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

As Commissioner of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities and as a blind man, it is Matthew Sapolin's mission to fulfill the spirit and the letter of the ADA by working to ensure that New Yorkers with disabilities can live, work and learn here with relative ease.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27