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Ex-Obama Aide Easily Wins Chicago Mayoral Race

   Richard Green | Washington  February 23, 2011
   Mayor-elect  Emanuel  gestures  after speaking to supporters during an
   election night party in Chicago, February 22, 2011

Photo: Reuters

   Mayor-elect  Emanuel  gestures  after speaking to supporters during an
   election night party in Chicago, February 22, 2011

   Four months after stepping down as U.S. President Barack Obama's chief
   of  staff,  Rahm Emanuel has been elected mayor of the midwestern city