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List of mayors of Chicago

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Mayors of Chicago, Illinois, current or previous

The mayoral term in Chicago was two years from 1837 through 1907, at which time it was lengthened to four years. Until 1861, municipal elections were held in March. In that year, legislation changed them to April. In 1869, however, election time was changed to November, and terms expiring in April of that year were lengthened.

William Butler Ogden	1837-1838
Buckner Stith Morris	1838-1839
Benjamin Wright Raymond	1839-1840 1842-1843
Alexander Lloyd	1840-1841
Francis Cornwall Sherman	1841-1842 1862-1863 1863-1865
Augustus Garrett	1843-1844 1845-1846
Alson Sherman	1844-1845
John Putnam Chapin	1846-1847
James Curtiss	1847-1848
James Hutchinson Woodworth	1848-1849 1849-1850
Walter S. Gurnee	1851-1853
Charles McNeill Gray	1853-1854
Isaac Lawrence Milliken	1854-1855
Levi Day Boone	1855-1856
Thomas Dyer	1856-1857
John Wentworth	1857-1858 1860-1861
John Charles Haines	1858-1860
Julian Sidney Rumsey	1861-1862
John Blake Rice	1865-1869
Roswell B. Mason	1869-1871
Joseph Medill	1871-1873
Harvey Doolittle Colvin	1873-1875
Monroe Heath	1876-1879
Carter Henry Harrison, Sr.	1879-1887 1893 (assassinated in office)
John A. Roche	1887-1889
DeWitt Clinton Cregier	1889-1891
Hempstead Washburne	1891-1893
George Bell Swift	1893 mayor pro tem 1895-1897
John Patrick Hopkins	1893-1895
Carter Henry Harrison, Jr.	1897-1905 1911-1915
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne	1905-1907
Fred A. Busse	1907-1911
William Hale Thompson	1915-1923 1927-1931
William Emmett Dever	1923-1927
Anton Joseph Cermak	1931-1933 (assassinated in office)
Frank J. Corr	March 15, 1933-April 17, 1933 (32 days, acting)
Edward Joseph Kelly	April 17, 1933-April 15, 1947
Martin H. Kennelly	1947-1955
Richard Joseph Daley	April 20, 1955-December 20, 1976 (died in office)
Michael Anthony Bilandic	December 28, 1976-April 16, 1979
Jane Margaret Byrne	April 16, 1979-April 29, 1983
Harold Washington	April 29, 1983-November 25, 1987 (died in office)
David Duvall Orr	November 25, 1987-December 2, 1987 (8 days, interim)
Eugene Sawyer	December 2, 1987-April 24, 1989 (acting, elected by City Council)
Richard Michael Daley	April 24, 1989-present

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