Oh he's a neo-Dem/plutocrat, to the bone. And he may be losing his job.
He's absolutely a corporate tool and has openly trashed unions and done things like slash public education here.
Best example: he closed 50 public schools recently in poor areas but diverted tens of millions of TIF funds (long story, it's money supposed to go to rebuild neighborhoods) to that DePaul University could have a downtown, lakefront stadium. And guess what, one of his cronies is now going to build a multi-million dollar hotel on the same site--imagine that. So instead of those funds going to revitalize poor communities, they're going to feathering the nest for a private university and hotel being built on unused pieces of Chicago real estate near the lake.
He's basically the Putin of Chicago, without all the murderin'.
In NO way is he a classic liberal, blue-collar-championing Democrat that cares about regular folk.