On Tuesday night, of course, former congressman and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel won an overwhelming victory to become Chicago's next mayor, taking over 55% of the vote and avoiding a runoff. His closest opponent was Gery Chico (former chief of staff to outgoing mayor Richard M. Daley), who scored 25%, followed by City Clerk Miguel del Valle with just over 9% and former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun with just under 9%.
The map below, put together by mapping guru jeffmd, shows the results of last night's elections by precinct. Blue is for Emanuel (who won 2,087 precincts), red for Chico (410), orange for del Valle (47). Oh, and green for Carol Moseley Braun, but you can't tell with her, since she won exactly one precinct. There were also 11 ties. (The dashed line toward the top represents Rahm's old congressional district, IL-05, now held by Dem Mike Quigley.)
Here's one other
interesting detail: Rahm did slightly better in wards (city council districts) represented by by black aldermen (59%) than by white aldermen (55%).