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65 ILCS 20/21-5

(65 ILCS 20/21-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 21-5)

Sec. 21-5. Mayor; Term of office.

(a) The mayor of
the city of Chicago shall be elected in 1943 and quadrennially
thereafter
in a nonpartisan election.  The candidate receiving a majority of the votes
cast for mayor at the consolidated primary election shall be declared mayor.
If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, a runoff election shall be
held at the consolidated election, when only the names of the candidates
receiving the highest and second highest number of votes at the consolidated
primary election shall appear on the ballot.  If more than one candidate
received the highest or second highest number of votes at the consolidated
primary election, the names of all candidates receiving the highest and second
highest number of votes shall appear on the ballot at the consolidated
election.  The candidate receiving the highest number of votes at the
consolidated election shall be declared elected.

(b) The mayor shall hold his or her office for 4 years
beginning at
noon on the third Monday in May following his or her
election, and until his
or her successor is elected and qualified.

(Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)