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The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois. It consists of 50 alderpersons elected from 50 wards to serve four-year terms. [ 1 ] The council is called into session regularly, usually monthly, to consider ordinances, orders, and resolutions whose subject matter includes code changes ...
The Democratic Socialist Caucus of the Chicago City Council is a bloc of aldermen in the Chicago City Council. The block was unofficially organized as the Socialist Caucus in 2019, and later organized as a formal caucus with its current name in 2021.
Pages in category "Chicago City Council members" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 271 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Here is a list of the people who have served as an alderperson since that time. Since its incorporation as a city in 1837 Chicago had been divided into wards whose number varied [a] but which were almost [b] always entitled to two alderpersons. In the early 20th century it was decided that reducing the number of alderpersons to a ward to one ...
1901 redistricting resulted in two "holdover" council members (Dixon and Thompson) being drawn into the ward. Ward was temporary represented by three aldermen Thomas J. Dixon: 1901–1910 Republican: Redistricted from 3rd ward 66th [1] [12] [8] [13] 67th 68th George F. Harding Jr. 1905–1915 [1] 69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th Wilson Shufelt ...
The 27-23 vote came just weeks before the end-of-the-year deadline, avoiding what would have been Chicago’s first shutdown of the city government. The mayor needed at least 26 of 50 alders for a ...
The last Republican to represent the ward on the Chicago City Council was Francis P. Gleason, who left office in 1897. In the 1940s, the ward was referred to as being the "wealthiest ward in the world".
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