Judge: Rahm Emanuel stays on Feb. 22 Chicago mayoral ballot

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel meets the residency requirement to run for mayor of Chicago and will remain on the Feb. 22 primary ballot, a Cook County judge ruled Tuesday.

In a ruling issued early Tuesday afternoon, Cook County Circuit Judge Mark Ballard upheld an earlier 3-0 ruling by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners that Emanuel, despite having lived in Washington, D.C., for the past two years to serve as President Obama’s chief of staff, is eligible to run.

No word yet on whether Alderman Ed Burke and his wife Justice Anne Burke will talk about this case at dinner tonight.