Emanuel Winnows Daley Crowd as He Faces $600 Million Hangover
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Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor-in-waiting, ran for office with the pledge of “no more business as usual” in the nation’s third-largest city.
In his transition to succeed Mayor Richard M. Daley on May 16, Emanuel is appointing an administration of outside professionals and some Daley allies to govern a city that is losing population, faces a 2012 budget deficit of more than $600 million and must, as Emanuel said yesterday, begin “charting a new course.”