Nice try. Not even close.
It’s about where he resides, i.e lives, hangs his hat, or as the law describes “resides in” for the year next preceding the election.
Nor does he qualify under the exception. The exception is is for those in the military. Rahm doesn’t qualify here, either.
If I decide to serve the United States in some other capacity, for 18 months, let’s say, the TSA at Denver Airport, am I still a resident of Illinois ?
I was eventually convinced I had to change my residence to Indiana lest the US Army assign me to a vacancy in an Indiana Guard unit. Drill weekends would have been miserable ~ making a 600 mile drive each way.
Of note, that position was one of the ones available for ordinary NG enlistees in Indiana at the time ~ including DAN QUAYLE.
I never owned a house in Indiana, and didn't actually live there from about June 1966 through to 1971 ~ yet, I voted, paid income tax there, and kept my drivers license.
It didn't matter what Indiana law said either ~ there are federal laws that allowed for this.
It was much more common in the past, then a bunch of Democrat refugees moved to the state and raised taxes making Virginia more "convenient" anyway.
Rahm was Chief of Staff for the President of the United States ~ and the city of Chicago imagines that it's piddly little laws regarding domicile should take precedent over the needs of the entire United States for Rahm's services ~ or the services of any other Chicago resident.
I think it's a civil rights problem that will eventually be ruled in Rahm's favor.