UPDATE: Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia has forced incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel into a runoff election on April 7.
With 1,732 of Chicago’s 2,069 precincts reporting (83.7 percent), the Chicago Board of Elections has unofficial results at 8:53 p.m. CST as:
Rahm Emanuel, 45.48 percent, 177,984 votes Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, 33.9 percent, 132,691 votes Willie Wilson, 10.49 percent, 41,062 votes Bob Fioretti, 7.39 percent, 28,940 votes William “Dock” Walls III, 2.73 percent, 10,701 votes
Emanuel will, of course, have all the resources he cares to tap for the runoff. But Chuy will get national and international attention for forcing the runoff in the first place, and as commenters have already noted below, he’s also likely to get a big boost as the focus of “Anybody But Rahm” and from The Guardian’s bombshell revelation about the Chicago Police Department’s very own secret prison.
For those interested in donations, here are links to Chuy’s campaign website and Act Blue page.
Turnout sucked something fierce: 27.85 percent. My wife was only No. 100 in our Rogers Park precinct when she voted just after 6 p.m. (I voted early last week.)
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