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Mayor of Chicago
Seal of the City of Chicago
since May 20, 2019
Style
  • Her Honor
  • The Honorable
Term length4 years
Inaugural holderWilliam Butler Ogden
Formation1837
SuccessionVice mayor of Chicago
Salary$216,210
WebsiteOffice of the Mayor

The mayor of Chicago is the chief executive of city government in Chicago, Illinois, the third-largest city in the United States. The mayor is responsible for the administration and management of various city departments, submits proposals and recommendations to the Chicago City Council, is active in the enforcement of the city's ordinances, submits the city's annual budget and appoints city officers, department commissioners or directors, and members of city boards and commissions.

During sessions of the city council, the mayor serves as the presiding officer. The mayor is not allowed to vote on issues except in certain instances, most notably where the vote taken on a matter before the body results in a tie.

The office of mayor was created when Chicago became a city in 1837.

History

William B. Ogden was the first mayor of Chicago.
Secretary of State John Kerry leaving "The Fifth Floor" office of the mayor (2016)

The first mayor was William Butler Ogden (1837–1838). Forty-five men and two women (Jane Byrne, 1979–1983, Lori Lightfoot, 2019–), have held the office. Two sets of father and son have been elected Mayor of Chicago: Carter Harrison, Sr. (1893) and Carter Harrison, Jr. (1897–1905, 1911–1915), as well as Richard J. Daley (1955–1976) and Richard M. Daley (1989–2011). Carter Harrison, Jr. was the first mayor to have been born in the city.

As an interim mayor, David Duvall Orr had the shortest mayoral term. Richard M. Daley was elected six times becoming Chicago's longest-serving mayor, surpassing his father's record.[1]

The first Irish Catholic mayor was John Patrick Hopkins (1893–1895), and Rahm Emanuel (2011–2019) is the only Jewish American to have served as mayor.

Harold Washington (1983–1987) was the first African American mayor. Current Mayor Lightfoot (sworn in May 2019) is the city's first African American woman and first LGBT mayor.

Appointment powers

The mayor appoints the commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department, the superintendent of the Chicago Police Department and the heads of other departments,[2] the largest of which are the Water Management Department (formed by the consolidation of the former Water Department and Sewer Department under Richard M. Daley), and the Streets & Sanitation Department. The mayor also appoints members to the boards of several special-purpose governmental bodies including City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Transit Authority, and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority. Under Richard M. Daley, the Illinois legislature granted the mayor power to appoint the governing board and chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools and subordinated the district to the mayor; the district had long been an independent unit of government.

The Chicago City Clerk and City Treasurer of Chicago are elected separately, as are the 50 aldermen who form the city council. The mayor is empowered, however, to fill vacancies in any of these 52 elected offices by appointment. In turn, the city council elects one of its own to fill a mayoral vacancy.

By charter, Chicago has a "weak-mayor" system, in which most of the power is vested in the city council. In practice, however, the mayor of Chicago has long been one of the most powerful municipal chief executives in the nation. Unlike in most other weak-mayor systems, the mayor has the power to draw up the budget. For most of the 20th century, before the decline of patronage and the mayor's office becoming officially nonpartisan in 1999, the mayor was the de facto leader of the city's Democratic Party, and had great influence over the ward organizations.[3] Located in City Hall, "the fifth floor" is sometimes used as a metonym for the office and power of the mayor.[4]

Election and succession

Main article: Mayoral elections in Chicago

The mayor of Chicago is elected by popular vote every four years, on the last Tuesday in February. A run-off election, in case no candidate garners more than fifty percent of the vote, is held on the first Tuesday in April. The election is held on a non-partisan basis. Chicago is the largest city in the United States not to limit the term of service for its mayor.

In accordance with Illinois law,[5][6] the city council elects a vice mayor who serves as interim mayor in the event of a vacancy in the office of the mayor or the inability of the mayor to serve due to illness or injury, until the city council elects one of its members acting mayor or until the mayoral term expires.[6] As of May 2019, the current vice mayor is Tom Tunney.[7] However, if a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor with more than 28 months remaining in the mayoral term and at least 130 days before the next general municipal election, then a special election must be held to choose a new mayor to serve out the remainder of the term at that general municipal election; if a vacancy occurs with fewer than 28 months remaining in the mayoral term or fewer than 130 days before the next general municipal election, then the acting mayor serves as mayor until the mayoral term expires.

The order-of succession involving the vice mayor was made concrete following disputes that arose in the aftermath of the death in office of Richard J. Daley, and was subsequently implemented following the death in office of Harold Washington, which saw Vice Mayor David Orr become acting mayor.[8] Prior to this, the city had vague succession laws which indicated that the president pro tempore of the City Council would succeed as mayor. This was not followed after the death of Daley, and the city council appointed Michael Bilandic acting mayor instead of having pro tempore Wilson Frost become mayor,[9] due to City Corporation Counsel William R. Quinlan ruling that, since the city did not have a statute specifically outlining succession, the City Council would need to elect the interim mayor.[10]

Six instances have seen the City Council appoint either an acting mayor, acting mayor pro tempore, or interim mayor.

In the absence of the mayor during meetings of the city council, the president pro tempore of the city council, who is a member of and elected by the city council, acts as presiding officer. Unlike the mayor, the president pro tempore can vote on all legislative matters. If neither the mayor nor pro tempore can preside, the vice mayor presides.[11]

List of mayors

Joseph Medill (#26) was the first foreign-born mayor.
John Patrick Hopkins (#35) was the youngest and the first Catholic mayor.
William Hale Thompson (#41) was the last Republican mayor of Chicago.
Jane Byrne (#50) was the first female mayor.
Harold Washington (#51) was the first African American mayor.
Richard M. Daley (#54) was the longest-serving mayor (22 years).
Lori Lightfoot (#56) is the first African American woman, and first LGBT mayor of Chicago.

Between 1833 and 1837, Chicago was incorporated as a town and headed by town presidents. Since 1837, it has been incorporated as a city and headed by mayors.

The mayoral term in Chicago was one year from 1837 through 1863, when it was changed to two years. In 1907, it was changed again, this time to four years. Until 1861, municipal elections were held in March. In that year, legislation moved them to April. In 1869, however, election day was changed to November, and terms expiring in April of that year were changed. In 1875, election day was moved back to April by the city's vote to operate under the Cities and Villages Act of 1872.

#No.[12] Image Name Term start Term end Terms Years   Party
Town presidents
1 Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen August 12, 1833 1834 1 1 None
2
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 John H. Kinzie 1834 March 4, 1837 3 3 Whig
Mayors
1
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 William B. Ogden 1837 1838 1 1 Democratic
2
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 Buckner S. Morris 1838 1839 1 1 Whig
3
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 Benjamin W. Raymond 1839 1840 1 1 Whig
4
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 Alexander Loyd 1840 1841 1 1 Democratic
5
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 Francis C. Sherman 1841 1842 1 1 Democratic
6
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 Benjamin W. Raymond 1842 1843 1 1 Whig
7
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 Augustus Garrett 1843 1844 1 1 Democratic
8
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 Alson Sherman 1844 1845 1 1 Independent Democratic
9
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 Augustus Garrett 1845 1846 1 1 Democratic
10
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 John P. Chapin 1846 1847 1 1 Whig
11
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 James Curtiss 1847 1848 1 1 Democratic
12
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 James H. Woodworth 1848 1850 2 2 Independent Democratic
13
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 James Curtiss 1850 1851 1 1 Democratic
14
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 Walter S. Gurnee 1851 1853 2 2 Democratic
15
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 Charles McNeill Gray 1853 1854 1 1 Democratic
16
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 Isaac L. Milliken 1854 1855 1 1 Democratic
17
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 Levi Boone 1855 1856 1 1 American
(Know Nothing)
18
Thomas-dyer (1).jpg
 Thomas Dyer 1856 1857 1 1 Democratic
19
John Wentworth of Chicago.jpeg
 John Wentworth 1857 1858 1 1 Republican
20
Johnhaines.jpg
 John C. Haines 1858 1860 2 2 Democratic
21
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 John Wentworth 1860 1861 1 1 Republican
22
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 Julian S. Rumsey 1861 1862 1 1 Republican
23
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 Francis C. Sherman 1862 1865 2 2 Democratic
24
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 John B. Rice 1865 1869 2 4 Republican
25
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 Roswell B. Mason 1869 1871 1 2 Citizens
26
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 Joseph Medill 1871 1873 1 2 Republican (Dry)
--
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 Lester L. Bond
(acting) 		1873 1873 1⁄4 1⁄2 Republican
27
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 Harvey Doolittle Colvin 1873 1875 1 2 Republican (Wet)
28
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 Monroe Heath 1876 1879 2 4 Republican
29
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 Carter Harrison Sr. 1879 1887 4 8 Democratic
30
John Roche.jpg
 John A. Roche 1887 1889 1 2 Republican
31
DeWitt Cregier.jpg
 DeWitt C. Cregier 1889 1891 1 2 Democratic
32
Hempstead Washburne.jpg
 Hempstead Washburne 1891 1893 1 2 Republican
33
Carter Harrison, Sr. - Brady-Handy.jpg
 Carter Harrison Sr. † 1893 1893 1⁄4 1⁄2 Democratic
34
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 George Bell Swift
(interim mayor) 		1893 1893 1⁄12 1⁄6 Republican
35
John Patrick Hopkins.jpg
 John P. Hopkins 1893 1895 2⁄3 11⁄3 Democratic
36
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 George Bell Swift 1895 1897 1 2 Republican
37
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 Carter Harrison Jr. 1897 1905 4 8 Democratic
38
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 Edward F. Dunne 1905 1907 1 2 Democratic
39
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 Fred A. Busse 1907 1911 1 4 Republican
40
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 Carter Harrison Jr. 1911 1915 1 4 Democratic
41
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 William H. Thompson 1915 1923 2 8 Republican
42
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 William E. Dever 1923 1927 1 4 Democratic
43
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 William H. Thompson 1927 1931 1 4 Republican
44
Anton Cermak cph.3b27410.jpg
 Anton Cermak † 1931 1933 1⁄2 2 Democratic
45
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 Frank J. Corr
(acting mayor) 		1933 1933 24⁄1461 24⁄365 Democratic
46
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 Edward J. Kelly 1933 1947 3 1⁄2 14 Democratic
47
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 Martin H. Kennelly 1947 1955 2 8 Democratic
48
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 Richard J. Daley † 1955 1976 5 3⁄8 21 Democratic
49 Michael A. Bilandic 1976 1979 5⁄8 2 1⁄3 Democratic
50
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 Jane Byrne 1979 1983 1 4 Democratic
51
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 Harold Washington † 1983 1987 1 1⁄8 4 7⁄12 Democratic
52
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 David Orr
(acting mayor)[13] 		1987 1987 7⁄1461 7⁄365 Democratic
53
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 Eugene Sawyer 1987 1989 17⁄48 1 1⁄2 Democratic
54
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 Richard M. Daley 1989 2011 5 1⁄2 22 Democratic1
55
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 Rahm Emanuel 2011 2019 2 8 Democratic1
56
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 Lori Lightfoot 2019 1 Democratic1

† Died/murdered in office.
1 Since 1999, mayoral elections have officially been nonpartisan. A 1995 Illinois law stipulated that "candidates for mayor ... no longer would run under party labels in Chicago". However, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot are known to be Democrats.[14]

Living former mayors

As of 2018, three former mayors of Chicago are still living, the oldest of whom is Richard M. Daley.[15] The most recent former mayor to die was Jane Byrne (1979–1983), on November 14, 2014.

Name Mayoral term Date of birth
David Orr November 1987 – December 1987 (1944-10-04) October 4, 1944 (age 80)
Richard M. Daley 1989–2011 (1942-04-24) April 24, 1942 (age 82)
Rahm Emanuel 2011–2019 (1959-11-29) November 29, 1959 (age 65)

Vice mayor

Vice mayor of Chicago
Seal of the City of Chicago
Incumbent
Tom Tunney
since May 20, 2019
Inaugural holderCasimir Laskowski
Formation1976
Salarynone[16]

In accordance with Illinois law, the city council elects a vice mayor who serves as interim mayor in the event of a vacancy in the office of the mayor or the inability of the mayor to serve due to illness or injury, until the city council elects one of its members acting mayor or until the mayoral term expires. The current vice mayor is Tom Tunney.[7]

The position was created by state law after the power struggle following Richard J. Daley's death in office.[9][16][17]

The position is considered to be largely ceremonial.[18][19][20]

If neither the mayor nor president pro tempore can preside over a City Council meeting, then the vice mayor presides.[11]

List of vice mayors

Vice-Mayor Tenure Mayor(s) serve under Notes Citations
Casey Laskowski 1976–1979 Michael Bilandic Inaugural holder of office [21][22]
Richard Mell 1979–1987 Jane Byrne
Harold Washington 		[23]
David Orr 1987–1988 Harold Washington
Eugene Sawyer 		Served as "Acting Mayor" for 1 week [8][24][25]
Terry Gabinski 1988–1998 Eugene Sawyer
Richard M. Daley 		[24][26]
Bernard Stone 1998–2011 Richard M. Daley [25][27][28]
Ray Suarez 2011–2015 Rahm Emanuel [18][19]
Brendan Reilly 2015–2019 Rahm Emanuel [29][30]
Tom Tunney 2019–present Lori Lightfoot [7]

See also

References

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  20. ^ Dumke, Mick (January 5, 2006). "A Million Here, a Million There . . ". Chicago Reader. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  21. ^ "CASIMIR LASKOWSKI, 84". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. August 18, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
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  24. ^ a b Dold, R. Bruce (May 26, 1988). "COUNCIL REPLACES ORR AS VICE MAYOR". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
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Further reading

  • Banfield, Edward C. Political Influence (1961), covers major public issues 1957 to 1958 in Chicago
  • Becker, Richard Edward. "Edward Dunn, Reform Mayor Of Chicago: 1905-1907" (PhD dissertation, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1971.T-22350).
  • Bennett, Larry. “The Mayor among His Peers: Interpreting Richard M. Daley.” in The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, ed. by Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson, (2011), pp. 242–72. online
  • Biles, Roger. Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago (U of Illinois Press, 2018). online
  • Biles, Roger. Big City Boss in Depression and War: Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago (1984).
    • Biles, William Roger. "Mayor Edward J. Kelly Of Chicago: Big City Boss in Depression and War" (Phd Dissertation, University Of Illinois at Chicago. Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1981 .8120559).
  • Bradley, Donald S., and Mayer N. Zald. "From commercial elite to political administrator: The recruitment of the mayors of Chicago." American Journal of Sociology 71.2 (1965): 153-167. online
  • Bradley, Donald S. The historical trends of the political elites and metropolitan Central City: the Chicago mayors (1963)
  • Bukowski, Douglas. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image (1998)
  • Bukowski, Douglas. "William Dever and Prohibition: The mayoral election of 1923 and 1927" Chicago History 7#2 (1978) pp. 109-118
  • Byrne, Jane. My Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2004), a primary source.
  • Carl, Jim. " '‘Good Politics Is Good Government': The Troubling History of Mayoral Control of the Public Schools in Twentieth‐Century Chicago." American Journal of Education 115#2, 2009, pp. 305–36. online
  • Cohen, Adam, and Elizabeth Taylor. American pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, his battle for Chicago and the nation (2001). online review; also see excerpt
  • Fehrenbacher, Don E. “Lincoln and the Mayor of Chicago.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 40#4 (1957), pp. 237–44. online, on Long John Wentworth
  • Gottfried, Alex. Boss Cermak of Chicago: A Study of Political Leadership (U of Washington Press, 1962).
  • Green, Paul M., and Holli, Melvin G. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (4th ed. 2013), scholarly biographies excerpt covers Medill, Harrison II, Dunne, Busse, Thompson, Dever, Cermak, Kelly, Kennelly, both Daleys, Bilandic, Byrne, Washington, and Emanuel.
  • Harrison, Carter Henry. Stormy Years: The Autobiography of Carter H. Harrison, Five Times Mayor of Chicago (1935), a primary source.
  • Johnson, Claudius O. Carter Henry Harrison I: Political Leader (1928) online
  • Jones, Gene Delon. "The Origin of the Alliance Between the New Deal and the Chicago Machine." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 67 (1974) pp 253-274.
  • Kleppner, Paul. Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor (1985)
  • Lydersen, Kari. Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99% ( Haymarket Books, 2013).
  • Koeneman, Keith. First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley (University of Chicago Press, 2013).
  • McCarthy, Michael P. "Prelude to Armageddon: Charles E. Merriam and the Chicago Mayoral Election of 1911." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 67#5 (1974), pp. 505–18. online
  • Marshall, Jon, and Matthew Connor. "Divided Loyalties: The Chicago Defender and Harold Washington’s Campaign for Mayor of Chicago." American Journalism 36.4 (2019): 447-472.
  • Morton, Richard Allen. Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive. (SIU Press, 1997).
    • Morton, Richard Allen. "Justice and humanity: The politics of Edward F. Dunne' (PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1988. 8823207). Mayor 1905 to 1907
  • O'Malley, Peter Joseph. "Mayor Martin H. Kennelly of Chicago: A Political Biography" (PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1980. 8023247).
  • Preston, Michael B. “The Election of Harold Washington: Black Voting Patterns in the 1983 Chicago Mayoral Race.” PS 16#3 1983, pp. 486–88. online
  • Rex, Frederick. The mayors of the city of Chicago from 1837 to 1933 (1947).
  • Schottenhamel, George. "How Big Bill Thompson Won Control of Chicago." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 45.1 (1952): 30-49. online
  • Schmidt, John R. The Mayor Who Cleaned up Chicago: A Political Biography of William E. Dever (1989)
  • Shipps, Dorothy. “Updating Tradition: The Institutional Underpinnings of Modern Mayoral Control in Chicago’s Public Schools.” in When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City, edited by Joseph P. Viteritti, (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), pp. 117–47. online
  • Simpson, Dick. The Good Fight: Life Lessons from a Chicago Progressive (2017), a primary source. excerpt
  • Simpson, Dick. Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council, 1863 to the Present. (2018)
  • Simpson, Dick, Melissa Mouritsen, and Betty O’Shaughnessy. "Chicago: The Election of Rahm Emanuel." in Local Politics and Mayoral Elections in 21st Century America (Routledge, 2014) pp. 99-115.
  • Spirou, Costas. Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago (Cornell UP, 2016) online
  • Tompkins, C. David. "John Peter Altgeld as a Candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1899." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 56.4 (1963): 654-676. online
  • Wendt, Lloyd and Herman Kogan. Big Bill of Chicago (1953) Popular biography of Big Bill Thompson online
  • Zald, Mayer N., and Thomas A. Anderson. "Secular Trends and Historical Contingencies in the Recruitment of Mayors: Nashville as Compared to New Haven and Chicago." Urban Affairs Quarterly 3#4 (1968): 53-68.
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