Talk:Mayor of Chicago

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Party Affiliation[edit]

Rahm Emanuel’s party affiliation should not be listed as "Democrat." Yes, he worked for a Democrat and ran in past elections as a Democrat, but due to changes in Illinois election law, this election was officially nonpartisan. The handiest source: this very article under the heading of "Election" where it states, "The election is held on a non-partisan basis." Other sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_mayoral_election,_2011

http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20101118.php — Preceding unsigned comment added by Algonquin69 (talk • contribs) 20:55, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The elections being declared "officially nonpartisan", whatever that's supposed to mean, doesn't change the fact that he is a Democrat. Unless he quite the party, of course. Str1977 ^(talk) 08:44, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Voting Process for City of Chicago Mayor[edit]

I have lived in Chicago for 13 years and have never voted in a mayoral election. I have and currently am a registered voter, yet I have never seen advertising or promotion of the mayoral election. I only just now was able to learn when the elections take place. I am an observant voter and have not missed this due to negligence.

74.211.153.2 (talk) 20:48, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The current information appears to be incorrect. According to another web site:
The next Mayoral election is February 22, 2011. If no candidate receives 50% + 1 then there will be a runoff election between the top two candidates on April 5th, 2011. The candidate who prevails in February or April's runoff election will be sworn in as the new Mayor of Chicago on May 16, 2011. Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/07/rules-running-chicago-mayor#ixzz11NzRUvmM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.244.46.110 (talk) 10:52, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NYC didn't eliminate term limits for the mayor in 2009; it changed the limit from two terms to three. This is moot as the two-term limit was reinstituted yesterday. Chicago has been the largest city with no mayoral term limits for the last two years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.46.75.186 (talk) 22:20, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with List of mayors of Chicago[edit]

I would like to propose merging List of mayors of Chicago into this article. Precedents include San Francisco, Jersey City, and St. Louis. There's just not enough content in this article to warrant a separate list. --Millbrooky (talk) 00:42, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Reywas92^Talk 17:22, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gun control[edit]

To Mayor of Chicago. The shooting has nothing to do with guns. You are missing the whole truth. This is a heart issue and Jesus Christ is the only one who can change the heart. So stop trying to take my constitutional right away. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.12.79.114 (talk) 13:07, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confusion about dates of service vs dates of death[edit]

I was a bit confused by these two sentences in the section Living Former Mayors: "The most recent mayor to die was Jane Byrne (1979-1983), on November 14, 2014. However, The most recently serving mayor to die was Eugene Sawyer (1987-1989), on January 19, 2008."

In context, I was confused by the parentheses after Jane Byrne's name enclosing her dates of service. The first time I read the sentence, I came to those parentheses and expected, since I'd just read "the most recent mayor to die," to see Byrne's dates of birth and death. I could immediately tell that I was wrong because I happened to know that Byrne died last fall (plus, if they were birth and death dates, she would have been four years old), but I had to go back and re-read the sentence before I figured out what was going on.

Now, maybe I'm just tired or easily confused, and it certainly would have seemed natural in any other part of the article to use parentheses for term of office like that. However, if it seems like other people might be confused, I might clarify by making it something like "(served 1979-1983)", "(mayor 1979-1983)", or "(in office 1979-1983)". — Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Liberalartist (talk • contribs) on 17:13, 7 April 2015

Still, the sentences are very confusing and require readers to read the sentences several time only to find out that they transport pretty trivial information. The distinction is between a former to have died last and the former dead mayor who has served last is not really relevant as serves only to include more trivia. Str1977 ^(talk) 13:15, 24 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Ann Graham[edit]

What's the story on Ann Graham in 1962? There's no cite, but she's included in the list (but doesn't change the numbering) and list of living mayors. Was she just a "mayor for a day" with no power but a really good story? Cause I'm not finding anything about her or Junior Officials Day that doesn't seem to point back here. This feels non-notable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.94.39 (talk) 01:42, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Acording to the information in her addition, she was [17 when "elected" to that "office" - obviously she was not Mayor of Chicage. Str1977 ^(talk) 10:11, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Numbering[edit]

Does anyone know why Lester L. Bond, who was acting mayor in 1873, is not counted among the mayors when all other acting or interim mayors are? Str1977 ^(talk) 10:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]