8th ward, Chicago

8th Ward - Chicago
Ward
Ward 8
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Cook
City	Chicago
Established	1847
Communities	list
Government
• Type	Ward
• Body	Chicago City Council
• Alderperson	Michelle A. Harris (Democratic Party)
Website

The 8th Ward is one of the 50 aldermanic wards with representation in the City Council of Chicago, Illinois.

History

The ward was created on February 16, 1847, when the number of wards in the city increased from six to nine. ^[1]

Past alders

The current alderperson for the 8th ward is Michelle A. Harris, who has represented the ward since 2006.

Before 1923

Before 1923, wards were represented by two aldermen.

Aldermen							# Council	Aldermen
Alderman			Term in office	Party	Notes	Cite		Alderman			Term in office	Party	Notes	Cite
		James Lane	1847–1849			[1]	11th			William B. Snowhook	1847–1848			[1]
							12th			William B. Herrick	1848–1850			[1]
		Henry R. Payson	1849–1850			[1]	13th
		John C. Dodge	1850–1852			[1]	14th			George F. Foster	1850–1851		Previously served in 6th ward	[1]
							15th			Robert Malcolm	1851–1853			[2]
		Andrew J. Brown	1852–1854			[1]	16th
							17th			Francis Hoffmann	1853–1854	Democratic		[1]
		William H. Stickney	1854–1855			[3]	18th
										B.W. Thomas	1854–1855			[1] [3]
		Samuel Ashton	1855–1856			[1] [3]	19th			Stephen D. LaRue	1855–1858			[1]
		Conrad L. Niehoff	1856–1857			[1]	20th
		Christian Wahl	1857–1861			[1]	21st
							22nd			Andrew Wright	1858–1860			[1]
							23rd
							24th			Redmond Prindiville	1860–1862			[1]
		W.G. White	1861–1862			[4]	25th
		Charles L. Woodman	1862–1863		Redistricted to 16th ward in 1863	[1]	26th			Redmond Sheridan	1863		Redistricted from 10th ward	[1]
										Francis J. Ullbrich	1863–1864		Redistricted from 10th ward	[1]
		Richard Clark	1863–1865			[1]	27th
							28th			Patrick Rafferty	1864–1869			[4]
		M.L. Frisbee	1865–1867			[1]	29th
							30th
		John Comiskey	1867–1869	Democratic	Previously served in 10th and 7th wards; redistricted to 9th ward in 1869	[1]	31st
							32nd
							33rd
		James H. Hildreth	1869–1870	Democratic	Redistricted from 7th ward	[1] [5]	34th			William S. Powell	1869–1871			[1]
		Michael B. Bailey	1870–1874			[1]	35th
							36th			Jeremiah Clowry	1871–1873			[1]
							37th
							38th			James H. Hildreth	1873–1876	Democratic	Redistricted to 7th ward in 1876	[1] [5]
		Patrick C. McDonald	1874–1875			[1]	39th
		Frank Lawler	1876–1886	Democratic	Later elected alderman again in 1895 in 19th ward	[1] [6]	40th			James O'Brien	1876–1877		Previously served in 9th ward	[1]
							41st			Richard M. Oliver	1877–1879			[1]
							42nd
							43rd			Thomas Purcell	1879–1885	Democratic		[1] [6]
							44th
							45th
							46th
							47th
							48th
							49th			Redmond F. Sheridan	1885–1888	Democratic	Redistricted to 19th ward in 1888	[1] [5]
		Lawrence A. Yore	1886–1888	Republican		[1] [5]	50th
							51st
		Charles A. Monear	1888–1889	Independent Democrat	Redistricted from 6th ward	[1] [7]	52nd			Joseph M. Weber	1888–1889		Redistricted from 7th ward	[1]
		George F. Bunker	1889–1891			[1]	53rd			Frank J. Dvorak	1889–1892			[1]
							54th
		Martin Morrison	1891–1895			[1]	55th
							58th			William Loeffler	1892–1894	Democratic		[1]
							57th
							58th			Frank Slepicka	1894–1896	Democratic		[1] [8]
		John Bennett	1895–1899			[1]	59th
							60th			Frank Meek	1896–1898			[1]
							61st
							62nd			Edward J. Novak	1898–1901	Democratic	Redistricted to 10th ward in 1901	[1] [9]
		Michael S. Garry	1899–1901			[1]	63rd
							64th
		John Hugh Jones	1901–1906	Republican	Redistricted from 33rd ward	[1] [9]	65th			P. H. Moynihan	1901–1909			[1]
							66th
							67rd
							68th
							69th
		John S. Derpa	1906–1908			[1]	70th
							71st
		John Hugh Jones	1908–1910	Republican		[1] [9]	72nd
							73rd			John R. Emerson	1909–1915	Democratic		[1] [10]
		John S. Derpa	1910–1912			[1]	74th
							75th
		Ernest M. Cross	1912–1917		Later elected alderman again in 1923 in 10th ward	[1]	76th
							77th
							78th
							79th			John E. Tyden	1915–1917	Republican		[1] [10]
							80th
		Ross A. Woodhull	1917–1923	Democratic		[1] [11]	81st	—
							82nd			Martin S. Furman	1918–1923	Democratic		[1] [11]
							83rd
							84th
							85th
							86th

Since 1923

See also: List of Chicago alderpersons since 1923

Since 1923, wards have been represented by a single alderman. Elections have also been nonpartisan, though officeholders often still publicly affiliate with parties.

Alderperson		Term in office	Party		Notes	Cite
	William D. Meyering	1923–1930		Democratic		[1] [12]
	David L. Sutton			Democratic		[1] [12]
	Michael F. Mulcahy
	Roy E. Olin
	Einar Johnson
	James A. Condon
	William Cousins	1967–1976		Democratic
	Marian Humes
	Keith Caldwell
	Lorraine Dixon				Died in office
	Todd Stroger	2001–2006		Democratic	Appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley. Subsequently won election. Resigned in order to assume office as president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners
	Michelle A. Harris	2006–present		Democratic	Appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, subsequently has won election to several terms

References

1. "Centennial List of Mayors, City Clerks, City Attorneys, City Treasurers, and Aldermen, elected by the people of the city of Chicago, from the incorporation of the city on March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1937, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the years during which each official held office". Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
2. Moses, John (1895). History of Chicago, Illinois, Volume 1. Munsell & Company. p. 133. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
3. Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1884). History of Chicago Volume 1. Arno Press. pp. 184–185. ISBN   978-0-405-06845-4 . Retrieved December 26, 2020.
4. Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1885). History of Chicago: From 1857 until the fire of 1871. Higginson Book Company. pp. 49–50. ISBN   9780832857249 . Retrieved July 12, 2020.
5. "Roll of the New Council, Including Holding-Over Aldermen and Those Elected Yesterday". Chicago Tribune. April 7, 1886. Retrieved July 20, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
6. Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1886). History of Chicago: From the fire of 1871 until 1885. A. T. Andreas. pp. 101–102, 865–870.
7. Politics and Politicians of Chicago: Cook County, and Illinois. Memorial Volume, 1787-1887. A Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. And an Account of the Haymarket Massacre of May 4, 1886, and the Anarchist Trials. Blakely Printing Company. 1886. p. 515. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
8. "All Fond of the Council" . The Chicago Chronicle. January 27, 1896. Retrieved July 1, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
9. "Board of Aldermen in Chicago Played a Role in Iroquois Theater Fire". www.iroquoistheater.com. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
10. "Council Makeup Vital Problem M. V. L. Warning" . Chicago Tribune. March 31, 1915. Retrieved November 29, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
11. "The Common Council Full List of Aldermen Composing the Governing Body of the City of Chicago" . Chicago Eagle at Newspapers.com. March 1, 1919. Retrieved December 2, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
12. "Final Results on Aldermen" . Chicago Tribune. Vol. 82, no. 81C. April 4, 1923. p. 4. Retrieved April 7, 2019– via Newspapers.com.