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RACE FOR MAYOR Questions? Call 1-800-TRIBUNE 24 hours at chicagotribune.com $1.00 CITY YEAR NO.54©CHICAGO TRIBUNE Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel acknowledges the crowd during his victory rally Tuesday night at a Near West Side plumbers union hall. you, Chicago, for this vote of confidence in our Emanuel said. ABEL PHOTO Mayor Emanuel Rahm Emanuel, a top adviser to two U.S. presidents who returned to Chicago just months ago, swept into the office Tuesday, inheriting a city reeling from recession and promising to reshape City Hall. He achieved what was once considered almost unthinkable, collecting a majority of support against five opponents in the first Chicago election without a sitting mayor on the ballot since 1947.

In a city with its share of racial divisions, Emanuel appealed to voters across those lines. He won the predominantly white wards of his former congressional district on the North and Northwest sides. And the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama also scored substantial margins in predominantly African-American neighborhoods. I can say, you sure know how to make aguy feel at Emanuel, who faced a high-profile legal challenge to his residency, told a packed room at a plumbers union hall on the Near West Side. of the people of Chicago, this is the warmest place in Ex-presidential adviser avoids runoff with By John Chase and Rick Pearson TRIBUNE REPORTERS Pleaseturnto Page4 The last time Rahm Emanueltook on a new job, the then-incoming White House chief of staff famously declared: never want a serious crisis to go to was in late 2008 amid a nationwide financial meltdown.

Now, after election, the 51-year- old Emanuel is the mayor-elect of a Chicago grappling with not just one serious crisis but an array of them, affording him more opportunities to test that precept about turning big problems into bold solutions. When he succeeds Richard M. Daleyin May, Emanuel will immediately inherit a city with a stark divide between haves and have-nots, a chronically underachieving school system, a crumbling transportation infrastructureand a police department that is seriously understaffed. more, the business and job-generating engine was sputtering even before the recession took hold, new census data shows Chicago islosing residents, costly parking meters and high property taxes remain THE TASK AHEAD Amid a sea of uncertainty, a raft of promises Pleaseturnto Page5 By Bob Secter TRIBUNE REPORTER Kass: Say hello to the new boss PAGE 2 I City Council: Stalwarts forced into runoffs PAGE 3 Moammar Gadhafivowed Tuesday to crush protests in which at least 300 alreadyhave been killed, drawing condemnation from the U.N. PAGE 12 NATION WORLD Defiance in face of chaos Richard Keller also quits his Lake County post after a probe into the death of a methadone clinic patient for whom Keller had written a prescription.

PAGE 10 CHICAGOLAND Coroner pleads guilty In the face of Republican attacks on organized labor, Democrats fight back with rallies and legislativewalkouts in several Midwesternstates. PAGE 15 NATION WORLD Rallies spread in Midwest 8 A.M. 24 NOON 32 4 P.M. 35 WEATHER See Tom forecast on the back of Live! SECTION 3 M-F: OVER 780 STORES NATIONWIDE! EA TIRES FROM ON ANY SET OF FOUR MICHELIN TIRES! 70 REBATE ONLINE OR MAIL-IN REBATE. VALID THROUGH Product: CTBroadsheet PubDate: 02-23-2011 Zone: ALL Edition: HD Page: MAINCOV-1 User: jkerke Time: Color:.