Election Calendar of Illinois Source: Illinois Election Laws Tuesday after first Monday in NovemberFor Presidential electors, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, Attorney General, State Senators in even numbered districts, Clerk of Superior Court of Cook County, Clerks of the Circuit Courts, Recorders, State's Attorneys, County Coroners, and County Auditors, every fourth year, counting from 1908. For State Treasurer, Representatives in Congress, Representatives in the General Assembly, and three Trustees of the University of Illinois for term of six years, every second year, counting from 1910. For. United States Senator, every six years, counting from 1914 and 1918, respectively. For clerk of Supreme Court and clerks of the Appellate Court, every sixth year, counting from 1908. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Senators in odd-numbered districts, Clerk of the Criminal Court of Cook County, county and probate clerks, county and probate judges, county treasurers, county superintendents of schools, and sheriffs, every fourth year counting from 1910. For judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, twenty-one judges every sixth year, 1941 and thereafter. (One judge first Monday in June every sixth year, counting from 1939, and six judges counting from 1940). For chief justice, clerk and bailiff of the Municipal Court of Chicago, every sixth year, counting from 1912; for nine associate judges of said court for term of six years, every second year, counting from 1908. For county commissioners in counties not under township organization, one each year for term of three years. Last Tuesday in February For one judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, every sixth year, counting from 1925. First Monday in June For judges of the Circuit Court, every sixth year, counting from 1909. For judges of the Supreme Court, Fifth District. every ninth year, counting from 1909; Fourth District, every ninth year, counting from 1912; and First, Second, Third, Sixth and Seventh Districts, every ninth year, counting from 1915. For judges of the Superior Court of Cook County, one every sixth year, counting from 1939, and six counting from 1940. First Tuesday in April For officers of cities in counties under township organization (not under commission plan) that have adopted the Act of 1885, annually. For mayor and commissioners in cities organized under the commission plan which include wholly within their corporate limits a town or towns, quadrennially, counting from 1911. For all town (township) officers, officers in cities containing one or more towns, and officers in villages whose boundaries coincide with the boundaries of a town (township) annually. Third Tuesday in April For mayor and commissioners of cities organized under the commission plan (except such as include wholly within their corporate limits a town or towns), quadrennially, counting from 1911. For officers of cities organized under the general law (except such as contain within their corporate limits one or more townships), annually. For officers of villages organized under the general law (except where the territorial limits coincide with the territorial limits of a township), annually. Second Saturday in April For school directors in school districts; for boards of education of township high schools: community high school districts, non-high school districts and community consolidated school districts, all annually. PRIMARY ELECTION Second Tuesday in February To nominate candidates to be voted for at the election on the first Tuesday in April. (DOWN STATE) Last Tuesday in February To nominate candidates to be voted for on the first Tuesday in April. (COOK COUNTY) To nominate candidates to be voted for at the election on the third Tuesday in April. Second Tuesday in April Every year in which a President of the United States is to be elected, for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate delegates to national nominating conventions and for the purpose of securing an expression of the sentiment and will of the party voters with respect to the candidates for nomination for the office of President of the United States. Every year in which officers are to be voted for on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, to nominate candidates to be voted for at said election: also to elect State, ward and precinct committeemen and Senatorial committee men. GENERAL PROVISIONS A primary for the nomination of all other officers, nominations for which are required to be made under the provisions of the primary law, shall be held seven weeks preceding the date of the general election for such offices, respectively. Issue Indebtedness of Illinois Outstanding Oct. 1, 1941 Source: Office of Illinois State Treasurer Called bonds and notes which have ceased to bear interest... State highway bonds. Soldiers relief compensation bonds Sheldon W. Govier. D........ [Chicago.. I 1944 Robert L. Conn, R......... Springfield.... 1944 1 Name Hal A. Spann 2 W. Joe Hill... 3 Maurice V. Joyce.. Alfred D. Riess.. Dick H. Mudge. 4 Franklin R. Dove. James G. Burnside Josiah T. Bullington. 5 Casper Platt. Ben F. Anderson.. George W. Bristow. 6 Charles Y. Miller. Frank B. Leonard. William S. Bodman. 7 Lawrence E. Stone. Victor Hemphill. Walter W. Wright.. 8 Guy R. Williams. Fred G. Wolfe. A. Clay Williams. 9 Riley E. Stevens. Burton A. Roeth.. Address Dist. Name William M. Bardens. 10 John T. Culbertson, Jr Joseph E. Daily Henry J. Ingram. 11 William C. Radliff. Ray Sesler Frank S. Bevan. 12 James V. Bartley. Luther B. Bratton Roscoe C. South. 13 Robert E. Larkin. Louis A. Zearing. Frank H. Hayes.. 14 Nels A. Larson Leonard E. Telleen. 16 William J. Fulton. William L. Pierce. Address Monmouth Peoria Peoria Bloomington Pontiac Atlanta Joliet Kankakee Watseka Streator Princeton Sycamore Belvidere Farm Population of Illinois 1935, 1930 Source: United States Bureau of the Census More than 61,000, or 6 per cent of the persons on farms, Jan. 1, 1935, lived in city, town or nonfarm residences five years earlier. The movement to farms was most extensive around large cities, Dwelling! on farms were 262,112, of which 252,096 were occupied and 10,016 were unoccupied Jan. 1, 1935. Total Tot. farms Jan. 1, Apr. 1. Pers. 1935 ELECTED MEMBERS (Term 1937-1943) Homer Mat Adams, D., Springfield. (Term 1939-1945) Frank A. Jensen, D., LaSalle. (Term 1941-1947) Johh R. Fornof, R., Streator. Mrs. Helen M. Grigsby, R., Pittsfield. Park Livingston, R., Chicago. Arthur Cutts Willard, President, University of Illinois, Urbana. Illinois Highway System Construction Source: Illinois Division of Highways Total improved mileage available to traffic as of Jan. 1, 1941-19,243.87. Appropriations, Illinois General Assembly Source: Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts Births and Deaths in Illinois Source: Illinois Department of Public Health; population estimates are of July 1st Year Cal. 1922. 1923. 1924. 1925 1926. 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935 1936 1937 1938. 1939. 1940.. DEATHS, CHIEF CAUSES, ILLINOIS (Rates per 100,000 Population) Building in Illinois and Chicago, 1939-1941 Source: Division of Statistics and Research, Illinois Department of Labor Total, all cities.. 30,613 $98,602,006 35,730 $121,230,160 18,441 $72,586,966 16,412 $53,009,417 15,855 75,514,637 18,159 7,753 47,949,210 8,636 Metrop. area exclud. Chicago] 8,102 27,565,4271 9,5231 86,595,022 10,362 55,822,248 8.218 37,071,618 47,519,599 4,961 30,786,795 4,001 21,875,921 39,075,423 5,401 25,035,453 4,217 15,195,697 TOTAL BUILDING FOR SIX MONTHS, JANUARY-JUNE, 1941, IN COMPARISON TOTAL BUILDING FOR SIX MONTHS, JANUARY-JUNE, 1940, IN COMPARISON Aldermen or Members of the City Council The City Council of Chicago is composed of fifty aldermen, each elected for a term of four years at a salary of $5,000 a year (the chairman of the Finance Committee receiving $3,360 additional). The Mayor is also a member of the City Council and is chairman thereof. Each alderman represents a ward in city. Present terms will expire in April, 1943. The present Council is composed of 42 Democrats and 8 Republicans (but all are elected on a non-partisan basis.) (Clerk of City Council, Ludwig D. Schreiber, ex officio; chief clerk, Edward J. Padden). *Fred Fischman was elected to fill vacancy but has not assumed office. Boards and Commissions Board of Health-Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president, $9,000; Dr. Francis A. Dulak, secretary. $2,960; Harry J. Reynolds, Dr. Lloyd Arnold, Dr. Louis E. Schmidt (no compensation). Board of Appeals (zoning)-James H. Cately, chairman; Robert C. Ostergren, John J. McKeone, James P. Allman, Barnet Hodes. (All members serve without compensation). Civil Service Commission-Joseph P. Geary, president, $7,500; John E. Brennan, $5,000; Wendell E. Green, $5,000. Chief Examiner and secretary, James S. Osborne, $4,500. Board of Local Improvements-Michael F. Mulcahy, president; William W. Link, Charles H. Weber, William J. Connors; one vacancy. (Each member receives $1.00 per year). A. Board of Election Commissioners-Harry Lipsky, chairman, $6,000; Mrs. Mabel G. Reinecke, secretary, $6,000; William B. Daly, $6,000. Chief clerk, John F. Rusch, $7,500. Board of Plumbing Examiners-Julius Newman, chairman, $4,500; John A. Castans, $2,500; Thomas P. O'Donovan, $2,500. Board of Examiners of Stationary. Engineers Frank J. Smith, president, $4,140; Michael Konkolewski, $2,500; Peter J. Whalen, $2,500. Board of Examiners of Mason ContractorsNicholas J. Dire, chairman, $4,140; William P. Crowe, $2,500; one vacancy. Board of Inspectors of the House of CorrectionRichard M. O'Brien, Thomas F. Myers, Jr., Frank Svoboda. (All members serve without compensation). Superintendent, Edward J. Denemark, $4,500 (plus full maintenance for himself and family). Board of Directors, Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium-Frederick Tice, M.D., president; Harry J. Reynolds, vice-president; Richard Davison, M.D., secretary. (All members serve without compensa tion). General superintendent, Dr. Leo Czaja, $6,750 (plus full maintenance for himself and family). Board of Directors, Chicago Public LibraryJoseph B. Fleming, president; Anton Vanek, vicepresident; Irvin C. Mollison, Dr. Frank Lagorio, John Sokol, Leo Lerner, Mrs. M. L. Purvin, Dr. Preston Bradley; one vacancy. (All members serve without compensation). Acting secretary, Nathan R. Levin; librarian, Carl B. Roden, $11,700. Board of Education James B. McCahey, president; Irwin N. Walker, vice-president; F. P. Siebel, Sr., B. L. Majewski, Nels H. Olson, Mrs. W. F. Heineman, Wilson Frankland, Samuel Levin, Joseph W. Cremin, Dr. M. O. Bousfield, Mrs. L. Robert Mellin. (All members serve without compensation). Secretary, Frank H. Landmesser, $6,000; superintendent of schools, William H. Johnson, $15,000; legal counsel, Richard S. Folsom, $12,000; business manager, Howard P. Savage, $12,000. Commissioners of Chicago Park District-R. J. Dunham, president; Philip S. Graver, vice-president; Louis E. Golan, James C. Petrillo, Stephen I. Witmanski. (All commissioners serve without compensation). Secretary, Tom E. Nash, $7,260: treasurer, Edward E. Brown, $1.00; general superintendent, George T. Donoghue, $14,400; chief engineer, Ralph H. Burke, $15,000. License Appeal Commission (alcoholic liquors)Local member, Senator Harold G. Ward, $3,000. Chicago Plan Commission-George T. Horton, chairman. Executive secretary, T. T. McCrosky. Committee on Standards and Tests (building materials, etc.)-Richard E. Schmidt (commissioner of buildings), ex officio; Ralph R. Leffler, Julius Floto, Fredrick Thielbar, and Aldermen A. G. Lindell, James J. McDermott and George D. Kells. (All members serve without compen sation). |