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  • Emanuel paid heavy price to get elected mayor (proving residency=$800K -- job pays $216K)

    10/18/2011 4:49:24 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 24 replies
    ABC Chicago ^ | 10-18-11 | Chuck Goudie
    As mayor of the city of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel is paid a salary of $216,000 a year. He spent four times that much money just to prove that he was a Chicago resident and therefore entitled to run for office. *snip* he court challenge that Emanuel had to overcome was proving that he was indeed a Chicago resident and had been for at least a year as required by law. Emanuel had held onto his home here in Ravenswood, even though he and his family had moved to Washington where he was President Obama's fiery chief of staff, and the...