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CHICAGO -- Rahm Emanuel decisively won Tuesday's mayoral election, becoming the city's 55th mayor.
President Obama complimented his former chief of staff, saying in a statement: "I want to extend my congratulations to Rahm Emanuel on a well-deserved victory tonight. As a Chicagoan and a friend, I couldn't be prouder. Rahm will be a terrific mayor for all the people of Chicago."
With 86 percent of the city precincts reporting, Emanuel had 55.63 percent of the vote -- enough to avoid a runoff election. His main rivals were Gery Chico, with 24.52 percent, City Clerk Miguel del Valle, with 9.53 percent, and former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) with 8.87 percent.
"What we will see going forward is Rahm putting together his team and what I believe will be a transparent process of bringing together the stakeholders who need to be part of the solutions to the problems we face -- public employees, teachers and business leaders," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
The mayoral election season started with a bang on Sept. 7, 2011, when Mayor Richard M. Daley made a bombshell announcement that he would not seek a seventh term.
"The truth is, I have been thinking about this for the past several months. In the end, this is a personal decision, no more, no less," Daley said.
From his perch in the West Wing, Emanuel, who had been coy publicly about his interest in the mayor's job, immediately started to prepare for a run, staying out of the spotlight until he was ready to quit as chief of staff and return to Chicago.
Emanuel departed the White House on Oct. 1 in a lavish East Room ceremony hosted by the president and orchestrated by Emanuel. It was attended by Cabinet members and top Obama administration staffers. Obama spoke warmly about his chief of staff, and Emanuel made radio and television commercials from the event. While Obama never officially made an endorsement, giving Emanuel permission to make extensive use of the material amounted to a defacto endorsement.
For all his meticulous planning, Emanuel never considered that his moving to Washington to work for Obama would yield a challenge to his Chicago residency. But it did. He was tossed off the ballot by an Illinois Court of Appeals panel on grounds that he did not meet residency requirements to run for mayor.
But he ultimately survived the challenge -- the Illinois Supreme Court ordered him back on the ballot -- and the pictures and stories of him sitting through a circus-like residency hearing were a turning point in his campaign, portraying the abrasive Emanuel as a sympathetic character.
A prolific fundraiser, Emanuel quickly amassed a huge political war chest after leaving the White House.
He had a running start, transferring $1.1 million from his federal House fund to his city race. Between Oct. 1, when Emanuel quit as chief of staff, through Dec. 31, he raised an additional $10.5 million to Chico's $2.5 million, Braun's $445,760 and del Valle's $111,499. Each has raised more money since then, but nothing close to closing the gap with Emanuel.
Rahm Israel Emanuel, the son of an Israeli immigrant, was born Nov. 29, 1959 in Chicago. His family moved to the North Shore suburb of Wilmette when he was in elementary school. After graduating from New Trier West High School in 1977, Emanuel received an undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence.
Emanuel won election to the House of Representatives in 2002 with the help of Daley's political foot soldiers. For years Emanuel has been close to the mayor's brother, William Daley, who replaced him as White House chief of staff. And Emanuel has a deep friendship with David Axelrod, who just stepped down as a White House senior adviser and was a key strategist for Mayor Daley before taking on Obama. Axelrod's former consulting firm made Emanuel's political commercials.
Tuesday's election marks a milestone -- Emanuel is the city's first Jewish mayor -- and the end of the long Daley era in Chicago.
Daley, the city's 54th mayor, first ran for the job in 1983, but lost the Democratic primary to Harold Washington, who went on to become the city's first black mayor.
Daley, then the Cook County State's Attorney, tried again and took office on April 24, 1989 -- Emanuel helped him raise millions of dollars for that campaign. Daley had been reelected ever since, presiding over an increasingly complacent 50-member City Council.
In May, Daley steps down as the city's longest-serving mayor, ruling Chicago from his fifth-floor City Hall office longer than his father, Richard J. Daley.
horray!!!! more bullshit coming from chicago. oh, and I highlighted the amazing red part. apparently liberals can predict the future. pretty sure on that date I will be either elk hunting or prepping to go elk hunting. fuck you rahm. I hate chicago, the shady way things are done, and most things about the city.
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