Illinois Supreme Court Allows Emanuel on Ballot for Chicago Mayor

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/us/politics/28chicago.html

Court Allows Emanuel on Ballot for Chicago Mayor
By MONICA DAVEY

CHICAGO — Rahm Emanuel’s bid to become mayor of this city may proceed, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The decision appeared to bring an end to weeks of legal debate over whether Mr. Emanuel qualified for the ballot, specifically whether his time in Washington as President Obama’s chief of staff meant that he had given up his residency status in Chicago, where he was born. By Illinois state code, candidates for mayor are required to have resided in Chicago for at least one year before Election Day. Mr. Emanuel left the White House in October, and the election is Feb. 22.

Moments after ruling was issued late Thursday, Mr. Emanuel was shaking hands with voters at a downtown "L"-train stop, where many had yet to hear the outcome, and asked what had happened. Mr. Emanuel, who appeared cheery as a mob of cameras rolled, said that he had no control over what had happened but was pleased that the voters now had some sense of certainty for the election ahead.

“We stayed focused on the concerns of the voters,” Mr. Emanuel said, of a week that had, however briefly, turned the city’s politics upside down. The word “resident,” Mr. Emanuel granted, would no longer be permitted in his family’s regular Scrabble games. Then he was off to a televised debate of the candidates. Legal experts said the state Supreme Court’s decision was probably a final answer to Mr. Emanuel’s situation, which has left this city puzzled and reeling, even as early voting is to start on Monday.

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1. We're sorry, Chicago...

You deserve a better class of mayor than Daley or Emanuel.

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