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- Governor Bruce Rauner and Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the memorial service for Ernie Banks on January 31 at Fourth Presbyterian Church. The church’s gallery has served as a polling place, and it’s been the best in the city for both Rauner and Emanuel.
“I’m honored that so many hardworking Chicagoans have put their trust in me,” Rahm Emanuel said on his website before last Tuesday’s election.
This is the mayor’s turf—within a mile or so of the lakefront, from downtown north, up to about Uptown, where incomes, and his support, begin to fall.
The Chicago Department of Public Health, which compiled the income data for the years 2008-’12, also calculates a “hardship” index for community areas, based on six factors: poverty, unemployment, per capita income, crowded housing, percent of residents 25 and older without a high school diploma, and “dependency”—percent of residents under 18 or over 64. The hardship index ranges from 1 to 100, with 1 representing the least hardship. Here are the hardship indexes for these seven neighborhoods for 2008-’12, and their rankings among the 77 community areas:
Emanuel got 46 percent of the vote citywide, Garcia 34 percent. Turnout was only 34 percent, and even lower than that both in Emanuel’s top wards (ranging from 27 to 33 percent) and in Garcia’s (27 to 28 percent). The runoff election is April 7.
