Rahm Emanuel, a former White House chief of staff for Barack Obama, was elected mayor of Chicago, easily overwhelming five opponents to take the helm of the third-largest U.S. city.
Mr. Emanuel defeated their opponents with 55 percent of the vote, a comfortable distance above the 50.1 percent needed to avoid a runoff.
For 43 of the last 56 years the city was governed by Richard J. Or his son Richard M. Daley Daley.
On his way to victory Mr. Emanuel has fought off a legal challenge to keep him out of the vote because he had spent most of the last two years in Washington working for the president.
Mr. Emanuel said that the victory was "humiliating" and thanked Mr. Daley for his life of service, saying that the outgoing mayor has "earned a special place in our hearts and our history."
But he added: "We have not won anything until a guy can go to school of thought of their studies and their security up to the parent of that child is the thought of their work and not where they're going to find a job, we have not. won nothing. "
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