Poll says Emanuel has 25 percent approval rating. 

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) Disturbing news about how Chicagoans feel about their city, and about Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

A new survey by The New York Times and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that only 25 percent of Chicagoans think Emanuel is doing a good job.

Overall, 62 percent of Chicagoans disapprove of Emanuel’s job performance.   For Chicago’s African Americans, that number is 70-percent.

Emanuel’s approval ratings have taken a nosedive since the November release of a police dashcam video showing a white officer killing black teenager LaQuan McDonald by shooting him 16 times.

The new poll shows that only 12 percent of black Chicagoans think the police department is doing a good or excellent job.    47 percent of white Chicagoans feel that way about the police.

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