(65 ILCS 20/prec. Sec. 21-5 heading)
CITY OFFICERS
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(65 ILCS 20/21-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-5)
Sec. 21-5. Mayor; Term of office.
(a) The mayor of
the city of Chicago shall be elected in 1943 and quadrennially
thereafter
in a nonpartisan election. The candidate receiving a majority of the votes
cast for mayor at the consolidated primary election shall be declared mayor.
If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, a runoff election shall be
held at the consolidated election, when only the names of the candidates
receiving the highest and second highest number of votes at the consolidated
primary election shall appear on the ballot. If more than one candidate
received the highest or second highest number of votes at the consolidated
primary election, the names of all candidates receiving the highest and second
highest number of votes shall appear on the ballot at the consolidated
election. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes at the
consolidated election shall be declared elected.
(b) The mayor shall hold his or her office for 4 years
beginning at
noon on the third Monday in May following his or her
election, and until his
or her successor is elected and qualified.
(Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-5a) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-5a)
Sec. 21-5a.
Whenever the date for the
runoff election
of the mayor of the city of Chicago conflicts with the celebration of Passover,
that election shall be postponed to the first Tuesday following the last
day of Passover.
(Source: P.A. 89-95, eff. 1-1-96.)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-5.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-5.1)
Sec. 21-5.1. Vice Mayor; election; duties; compensation. Following
election and qualification of alderpersons at a general election as provided
by Section 21-22 of this Act, the City Council shall elect, from among its
members, a Vice Mayor, to serve as interim Mayor of Chicago in the event
that a vacancy occurs in the office of Mayor or in the event that the Council
determines, by 3/5 vote, that the Mayor is under a permanent or protracted
disability caused by illness or injury which renders the Mayor unable to
serve. The Vice Mayor shall serve as interim Mayor. He will serve until
the City Council shall elect one of its members acting Mayor or until the
mayoral term expires.
The Vice Mayor shall receive no compensation as such, but shall receive
compensation as an alderperson even while serving as interim Mayor. While
serving as interim Mayor, the Vice Mayor shall possess all rights and powers
and shall perform the duties of Mayor.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22.)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-6)
Sec. 21-6.
Mayor
may release prisoners - Pardon board.
The mayor shall have the power to release any person imprisoned for
violation of any city ordinance; he may, if he sees fit, appoint a pardon
board of three persons, consisting of the superintendent of the house of
correction and such inspectors thereof as he may select. In case such board
be appointed all petitions for release from the house of correction shall
in the first instance be addressed to said board and shall be by them
forwarded to the mayor, with a report of their findings and
recommendations.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19 .)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-7)
Sec. 21-7. Compensation of officers.
The compensation of all officers shall be by salary. No officer shall be
allowed any fees, perquisites or emoluments or any reward or compensation
aside from his salary, but all fees and earnings of his office or
department shall be paid by him into the city treasury. The city council
shall fix the salaries of all officers, except those who are elected or
appointed for a definite term fixed by statute, in the annual appropriation
ordinance and those salaries shall not be altered during the same fiscal
year. The city council, by ordinance other than the appropriation
ordinance, shall fix the compensation of each officer who is elected or
appointed for a definite term fixed by statute and his salary shall not be
increased or diminished during his term of office. The chairman of the
finance committee of the city council shall receive in addition to his or her
salary as an alderperson such additional compensation, not exceeding $3,500.00
per annum, as may be provided in the annual appropriation ordinance for his or her
services as chairman of said committee.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-8)
Sec. 21-8.
Interest on public funds.
Neither the treasurer nor any other officer of the city of Chicago
having public funds in his possession or custody shall be entitled to the
interest accruing thereon or any part thereof, but such interest shall
inure to the benefit of such city and be paid into its treasury.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19 .)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-9)
Sec. 21-9.
Deposit of funds - Bids - Designation of banks or savings
and loan associations.
It shall be the duty of the comptroller at least once in each year
before the first day of December to advertise for bids from savings and
loan associations or national and
State banks for interest upon the money of the city to be deposited in
banks or savings and loan associations. Such bids shall be reported
to the city council for its
information and consideration not later than the fifteenth day of
December of each year, to the end that an award or awards may be made
upon such bids by the city council before the beginning of each fiscal
year. Such awards shall be made to the highest and best responsible
bidder or bidders. The city council shall have the power to reject all
bids and to designate as many depositaries as it deems necessary for the
protection of the city's interests. Only a savings and loan association
or a regularly organized State or
national bank may be designated as a depositary. The city council shall
have power to pass all necessary ordinances to carry the foregoing
provisions into effect and provide rules applicable thereto. The city
treasurer shall be discharged from responsibility for all moneys
deposited by him in any bank or saving and loan association designated
as a depositary by order or
ordinance of the city council. When money is once deposited in such
depositary or depositaries, no check or draft shall be drawn against
such deposit without a warrant to the city treasurer signed by the mayor
and countersigned by the comptroller.
No bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds as
permitted by this Section, unless it has complied with the requirements
established pursuant to Section 6 of "An Act relating to certain investments of public
funds by public agencies", approved July 23, 1943, as now or hereafter amended.
(Source: P.A. 83-541.)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-10)
Sec. 21-10.
Official bonds - Civil service employees not to be removed.
The city council shall have the power to fix the amount and penalty of
the bonds of all city officers and of all municipal employees charged with
the custody of money or property. It shall also have the power to require
the giving of additional bonds, and to increase or decrease the amount and
penalty of the bonds of any officer, and to require the giving of a new
bond where the security of an original bond has become either insufficient
or in any way impaired, upon penalty of removal from office. The power
vested in the city council by this Section shall be so administered as to
protect the interests of the city from danger of financial loss, and shall
never be used as a means of removing any person from the civil service of
the city without a hearing before the Civil Service Commission, in
accordance with law. In any such case the city employee or official whose
office is sought to be declared vacant by reason of a failure to give a
new, additional, or increased bond, shall have the right to have a hearing
before the Civil Service Commission upon the question so involved.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19 .)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-11)
Sec. 21-11.
Corporation counsel.
The head of the law department of the city shall be the corporation
counsel. The corporation counsel shall be and act as the legal adviser of
the city council and of the several officers, boards and departments of the
city. He shall appear for and protect the rights and interests of the city
in all actions, suits, and proceedings brought by or against it or any city
officer, board or department, including actions for damages when brought
against such officer in his official capacity; provided, however, that when
an officer or employee of the city is sued personally, even if the cause of
action arose out of his official duties, the corporation counsel shall
appear for such officer or employee only in case the city council directs
him to do so.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19 .)
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(65 ILCS 20/21-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-12)
Sec. 21-12. City clerk and city treasurer; election; tenure. At the time of election of the mayor there shall be elected also in a nonpartisan election a city
clerk and a city treasurer. The candidates receiving a majority of the votes
cast for clerk and treasurer at the consolidated primary election shall be
declared the clerk and treasurer. If no candidate receives a majority of the
votes for one of the offices, a runoff election shall be held at the
consolidated election, when only the names of the candidates receiving the
highest and second highest number of votes for that office at the consolidated
primary election shall appear on the ballot. If more than one candidate
received the highest or second highest number of votes for one of the offices
at the consolidated primary election, the names of all candidates receiving the
highest and second highest number of votes for that office shall appear on the
ballot at the consolidated election. The candidate receiving the highest
number of votes at the consolidated election shall be declared elected.
The clerk and treasurer each shall hold office for a
term of 4 years beginning at noon on the third Monday in May
following the election and until a successor is elected and qualified. No
person, however, shall be elected to the office of city treasurer for 2
terms in succession unless the city, by ordinance, establishes different succession terms.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
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