Who Controls The Government Of The City Of Chicago,Illinois

The seat of government in Chicago is Chicago City Hall located next to the Richard J. Daley Center and the James R. Thompson Center. City Hall is an eleven floor building dedicated as the official seat of Chicago on February 27, 1911. The elected officials who work in city hall, control the government of the City of Chicago. These officials are elected to be mayor, clerk, and treasurer of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago also has aldermen who are elected from each of the fifty wards of Chicago for a total of fifty alderman.
The fifty aldermen are Chicago's City Council. It is up to them to enact laws and to pass a budget for the City of Chicago. The mayor of Chicago acts as the presiding officer of City Council. The elected secretary or clerk acts as Secretary of the City Council of Chicago. The official government of the City of Chicago are the people who are elected to represent the interests of the citizens of Chicago. The formal governmental structure is structured to assure that all citizens have access to their representative in Council.
Chicago's form of government is similar to many other cities in the United States. The election of many aldermen or officials was to assure a decentralized form of government that could reflect the changing interests of the City of Chicago which was basically a City founded on commerce. As the city grew in importance to become one of the greatest cities of the world, its local government has not surprisingly closed into becoming centralized and authoritarian in perspective and action.
A supposed obstacle to a centralized city government was to be the election of aldermen from the cities fifty wards that are ethnic in population. However, the election of these representatives of the Chicago's wards correspond to the election of the mayor of Chicago, who controls the city government as presiding officer of the City Council of Chicago.