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City Clerk of Chicago
Seal of the City of Chicago
Incumbent Anna M. Valencia since January 25, 2017
Term length	4 years
Salary	$136,393
Website	Office of the City Clerk of Chicago

The City Clerk of Chicago is in charge of record-keeping for Chicago, including for its elections, permits, licenses, and laws. When the Chicago City Council is in session, the City Clerk also serves as council secretary. The clerk is a citywide elected office, and is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, along with the Mayor and the Treasurer.

The current city clerk is Anna Valencia.

One former city clerk is more famous for his non-political activities: The late Baseball Hall of Famer Cap Anson served one term from 1905-1907.

Duties

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The City Clerk's office is responsible for maintaining official city government record (such as the Municipal Code of Chicago), distributing approximately 1.3 million vehicle stickers and residential parking permits, and issuing city business licenses.

Significant City Council transparency efforts have included posting nearly 700,000 pages of searchable City Council records to the City Clerk website, ChiCityClerk.com. This includes every ordinance passed since 1981, as well as city budgets and mayoral executive orders going back nearly 30 years. In addition, City Council meetings can be watched live or on demand via a City Council video archive on the City Clerk's website.

List of City Clerks

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2018)

Town Clerks

The position of City Clerk was preceded by the position of Town Clerk, which existed after Chicago had been incorporated as a town and before Chicago was incorporated as a city.

References

1. "City Clerk Laski resigns after indictment". Crain's Chicago Business. 2006-02-06. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
2. "Chicago Democracy Project - Election Results for 1995 General Election, City Clerk - Chicago, IL". chicagodemocracy.org. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
3. "Daley Has A Team All His Own - tribunedigital-chicagotribune". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
4. ^ "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.
5. "Chicago Democracy Project - Election Results for 1979 General Election, City Clerk, Chicago, IL". chicagodemocracy.org. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
6. "Photography - Chicago Tribune". Chicago Tribune. 23 August 2023.
7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2015-06-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
8. "Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago". 1955.
9. "Our Campaigns - Candidate - Ludwig D. Schreiber".
10. "Connery Chicago". freepages.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
11. ^ Blanchard, Rufus (1881). Discovery and Conquests of the North-west, with the History of Chicago. R. Blanchard & Company. pp. 424–433.
12. ^ Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1884). History of Chicago. Vol. 1. Arno Press. pp. 175–176. ISBN 978-0-405-06845-4.

External links

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