This week's Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter lists 10 things you may not have known about Chicago's mayoral election.
Society members Mrs. Frank Loesch, from left, Kathyrn McGovern, Helen Tieckman, Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Hammond voted at the Drake Hotel during a heated aldermanic race on April 2, 1929.
If you hate election season, thank your lucky stars you didn’t live in Chicago in the mid-1800s, when residents went to the pollsto vote for mayor. The term was doubled to two years in 1863, and doubled again to four in 1907.Former Mayor Fred A. Busse, left, is about to step into an automobile for a 1,000 mile tour in 1907.Busse’s election
inspired a group of 40 men to ask him to help form a dining and political group called the Fat Men’s Club. Former state Sen. Thomas J. Dawson predicted that Busse would be “the best mayor Chicago has ever had.” The reason: “Take a fat man and he feels so good and joyful with himself and all the world that he just can’t keep from doing the right thing at all times.” Nothing much came of the club idea, and Busse’s single term in office was not particularly weighty.
Chicago Mayor William Dever, right, shakes the hand of racer Carl Stockholm at the six-day bicycle races that started on March 20, 1927, at the Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago. William Dever, who was elected mayor 100 years ago, was a reformer with impeccable working-class credentials. Seeking reelection four years later, however, he found himself on the defensive.Mayor William Hale Thompson, with the Chicago Evening American at City hall, shows Thompson wins by 60,000 votes, in the Republican mayoral primary against Judge Lyle in February 1931. Mayor Thompson would go on to lose to Democrat Anton Cermak.
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