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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Four more years
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel thanks supporters in a speech after winning the April 7 runoff.
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Chicago picks Rahm
Supporters of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel celebrate his win over challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in the April 7 runoff.
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Jesus "Chuy" Garcia's election night party
Chuy concedes
Jesus "Chuy" Garcia thanks supporters after losing to Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the April 7 runoff.
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Ready to celebrate Rahm
Supporters of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel celebrate his win over challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in the April 7 runoff.
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Rahm for Chicago
Supporters of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel celebrate his win over challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in the April 7 runoff.
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Plumber picks Emanuel as best bet
Jeff Battaglia lives in Tinley Park and was a plumber for 44 years. He says Mayor Rahm Emanuel is good for working people and the middle class. He says he's afraid of what Jesus "Chuy" Garcia winning would mean for Chicago and doesn't like that Garcia didn't give more specific ideas about what he would do as mayor during the campaign.
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Jesus "Chuy" Garcia's election night party
Teen hopes Garcia can unite Chicago
Adam Gunther, 18, is a student at Roosevelt University. He is an intern for a progressive group that supports Garcia for mayor. He predicts if Garcia is elected, Chicago's neighborhoods will be revitalized. "The money is not just going to go to downtown developers," Gunther says. "No longer will Chicago just be a tale of two cities."
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Chicago under construction
Faye Consuela lives in Rogers Park and works for Emanuel's campaign. Consuela says she hopes Rahm wins the runoff for Chicago mayor. She says it's like Chicago's 'under construction' with Rahm because he's improving things. 'Chuy has not given vision,' she says.
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Jesus "Chuy" Garcia's election night party
Rejecting Rahm's rubber stamp style
Rick Nova of Logan Square says Rahm is too 'dictatorial' and that's why he supports Garcia for mayor. "He's abusive to democracy itself," Nova says.
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Suburban support for Emanuel
Craig Weeks is a plumber who works in the city but lives in the Western suburbs. "(Rahm) is putting our people to work, so that's why we supported him," he says.
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Jesus "Chuy" Garcia's election night party
Garcia as neighborhood guy
Olga Perez, 63, lives in Bridgeport. She supports Garcia for mayor. She says if he wins, she hopes neighborhoods get more attention.
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
High rises boost union jobs
Walter McCarthy says high rise buildings going up is good for union workers, and that construction work is why he wants Rahm win the runoff election.
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Rahm Emanuel's election night party
Rogers Park Rahm fan
William Kane of Rogers Park says he supports mayor Rahm Emanuel because his union has seen lots of work during in the last few years.