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The 6th Ward is one of the 50 aldermanic wards with representation in the City Council of Chicago, Illinois.

History

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Past alders

The current alderperson for the 6th ward is William Hall.

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
		Samuel Jackson	1837–1838				1st			Bernard Ward	1837–1838
		George W. Dole	1838–1839				2nd			Grant Goodrich	1838–1839
		John H. Kinzie	1839–1840		Later elected alderman again in 1852 in 9th ward		3rd			Buckner Stith Morris	1839–1840	Whig
		R.J. Hamilton	1840–1841		Later elected in 1849 in the 9th ward		4th			William B. Ogden	1840–1841	Democratic	Later elected adlerman again in 1947 in 9th ward
		George F. Foster	1841–1842		Later elected alderman again in 1850 in 8th ward		5th			James J.H. Howe	1841–1842		Later elected alderman again in 1855 in 7th ward
		George O. Bryan	1842–1843				6th			George W. Dole	1842–1844
		J. Marback	1843–1844				7th
		Michael Diversey	1844–1845		Later elected alderman again in 1856 in 9th ward		8th			Buckner Stith Morris	1844
										James H. Rees	1844–1845
		Mahlon D. Ogden	1845–1846		Later elected alderman again in 1871 in 19th ward		9th			Richard C. Ross	1845–1847
		William M. Larrabee	1846–1847				10th
		Asahel Pierce	1847–1849		Previously served in 4th ward		11th			Henry Smith	1847–1849
							12th
							13th			G.W. Wentworth	1849–1851
		Daniel Richards	1849–1851
							14th
		Daniel Elston	1851–1852				15th			James M. Hannah	1851
										Read A. Williams	1851–1852
		A.C. Ellithorpe	1852				16th			Henry Smith	1852–1853
		Thomas B. Dywer	1852–1854
							17th			William Carpenter	1853–1855
		William Wayman	1854–1856				18th
							19th			A.C. Ellithorpe	1855–1857
		Henry Greenbaum	1856–1858	Republican			20th
							21st			George Sitts	1857–1859
		John Van Horn	1858–1860				22nd
							23rd			C.A. Reno	1859–1861
		James W. Cobb	1860–1862				24th
							25th			Edward S. Salomon	1861–1863	Republican
		Francis C. Brown	1862–1863		Redistricted to 9th ward in 1863		26th
		Malcolm McDonald	1863–1864		Previously served in 10th ward		27th			David Walsh	1863–1865
		John Wallwork	1864–1868				28th
							29th			Thomas C. Hatch	1865–1867
							30th
							31st			David Walsh	1867–1869
		Michael Keeley	1868–1869				32nd
							33rd
		Mark Sheridan	1869–1870		Redistricted from 5th ward; later elected alderman again in 1876 in 5th ward		34th			William Tracy	1869–1873
		Daniel Heenan	1870
		Michael Schmitz	1870–1874				35th
							36th
							37th
							38th			Phillip Reidy	1873–1976			<
		Fred Sommer	1874–1876		Redistricted to 5th ward in 1876		39th
		Edward Cullerton	1876–1888	Democratic	Redistricted from 7th ward, redistricted to 9th ward in 1888		40th			Fred Lodding	1876–1879
							41st
							42nd
							43rd			John J. Altpeter	1879–1883	Socialist Labor
							44th
							45th					Republican and Socialist Labor
							46th
							47th			Charles F. L. Doerner	1883–1887	Democratic
							48th
							49th
							50th
							51st			Charles A. Monear	1887–1888	Independent Democrat	Redistricted in 1888 to 8th ward
		Edward P. Burke	1888–1892		Previously served as alderman in the 5th ward		52nd			George Emmerich	1888–1889
							53rd			William H. O'Brien	1889–1893
							54th
							55th
		Henry Stuckart	1892–1894				56th
							57th			Thomas Reed	1893–1895
		Charles Martin	1894–1901	Democratic	Redistricted to 5th ward in 1901		58th
							59th			Henry Stuckart	1895–1897
							60th
							61st			William H. O'Brien	1897–1899
							62nd
							63rd			James J. McCormick	1899–1901		Later elected alderman again in 1904 in the 5th ward
							64th
		William Mavor	1901–1904	Republican	Redistricted from 32nd ward; Died in office		65th			Linn H. Young	1901–1909	Republican
							66th
							67th
		Edward C. Potter	1904–1906	Independent Republican			68th
							69th
		Arthur S. McCoid	1906–1910				70th
							71st
							72nd
							73rd			Theodore K. Long	1909–1915
		William R. Parker	1910–1912				74th
							75th
		Willis O. Nance	1912–1918	Republican			76th
							77th
							78th
							79th			Alexander A. McCormick	1915–1921	Republican
							80th
							81st
							82nd
							83rd
		Charles S. Eaton	1919–1923	Republican	Continued as alderman after 1923, but redistricted to 5th ward		84th
							85th
							86th

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.

Alderman			Term in office	Councils served in	Party	Notes	Cite
		Guy Guernsey			Republican	Redistricted from the 7th ward
		John F. Healy			Democratic
		Patrick Sheridan Smith
		Francis J. Hogan
		David R. Muir
		Sydney A. Jones Jr.
		Robert H. Miller
		A. A. Rayner Jr.	1967–1971	98th		retired from council
		Eugene Sawyer	February 28, 1971 – December 2, 1987	98th-103rd	Democratic	Resigned after being appointed mayor
		Ronald Robinson	1987–1989	103rd	Democratic	Appointed by Mayor Eugene Sawyer
		John O. Steele	1989–December 1997	103rd-105th	Democratic	Elected in a special election; resigned after being appointed an associate judge for the Cook County Circuit Court in December 1997
n		Freddrenna Lyle	February 8, 1998 – May 16, 2011	105th–109th	Democratic	Appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1998; subsequently elected to three full terms; lost re-election in 2011
		Roderick Sawyer	May 16, 2011 – May 15, 2023	110th–113th	Democratic	Son of Eugene Sawyer, who formerly held the same aldermanic seat; retired in 2023 in order to (unsuccessfully) run for mayor
		William Hall	May 15, 2023–present	114th, 115th	Democratic

Demographics

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Electoral history

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