Fib Checking Rahm In The Mayoral Debates

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• Rahm Emanuel during Friday’s debate in front of the Sun-Times editorial board.

“Rather than leading the country with people leaving, we’re leading the country with families coming back,” Rahm Emanuel said Friday during a mayoral debate at the Sun-Times.

But Chicago in this “study” doesn’t mean Chicago proper, because the rankings were of metro areas.

Other moving companies publish similar annual “migration” rankings. They give the companies a burst of free publicity when media write about the rankings—as Crain’s Chicago Business did in September, after United Van Lines announced last year’s “findings.” Emanuel also put out a press release then, trumpeting the results.