Rahm Emanuel Runs for Mayor of Chicago

Rahm Emanual
Callie Shell for TIME

On the Move
The single largest bump in the road to city hall that Emanuel has faced so far came in the form of a legal challenge to his legitimacy as a Chicago resident. The lawsuit, whose source of funding remains mysterious, argued that he'd lived in Washington too long to call himself a Chicagoan. After an appeals court ruled against him, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously decreed him a legal resident.

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