New Chicago Mayor Will Be Elected in 1989, Board Decides
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CHICAGO — The city elections board voted unanimously Tuesday to hold a special mayoral election next spring to choose a successor to the late Mayor Harold Washington, whose term would have ended in 1991.
“We’re proceeding with the 1989 election unless we’re ordered to the contrary by the court,” said Tom Leach, a spokesman for the city Board of Elections Commissioners.
Circuit Judge Eugene Wachowski has said he expects to rule on the issue at a hearing Friday.
The board had voted last month to hold a special mayoral election in April, 1989, if City Clerk Walter Kozubowski declared that Washington’s death in late November created a vacancy in the position.
Kozubowski said at the time that he would not issue such a declaration unless ordered to do so by a court. But on Monday, he apparently changed his mind and provided the elections board with the documentation, Leach said.
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