After Trump's election, Emanuel picked up pace of travel

As other members of his party were reeling from Donald Trump's Election Day victory, Mayor Rahm Emanuel got moving.

In a return to his long-cultivated role as a national political operator, Emanuel filled his schedule with trips around the country and overseas, attending conferences, making deals, raising campaign money and dispensing advice.

Emanuel took 10 out-of-town trips in as many weeks following Trump's election, according to a Chicago Sun-Times review of his daily schedules.

The mayor held meetings and hit parties with Obama administration officials in Washington, D.C. He met with Trump in New York, attended an international climate conference in Mexico City, spoke at a gathering of Democratic Party activists in Miami, and traveled to a fund-raiser at the Austin, Texas, home of one of the promoters of the Lollapalooza music festival.

The flurry of travel - paid for through a "mixture" of taxpayers' money, campaign cash and private funding, according to City Hall - coincided with a stepped-up campaign fund-raising effort. His political committees took in $1.4 million during the second half of 2016 - nearly three times the $500,000 raised in the same period a year earlier, campaign-finance records show.

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