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Post-1923 Chicago City Council members / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of those who served on the Chicago City Council before it took its modern form in 1923. The Chicago City Council assumed its modern form on April 16,[1] 1923, with fifty wards each electing one alderman. Before then, there were a varying number of wards over the years, many serving as multiple-member districts.
See also: List of Chicago aldermen since 1923
Since its incorporation as a city in 1837 Chicago had been divided into wards whose number varied[lower-alpha 1] but which were almost[lower-alpha 2] always entitled to two aldermen. In the early 20th century it was decided that reducing the number of aldermen per ward to one would be a cost-saving measure, and an ordinance to that effect was passed in 1920, taking effect in 1923.