• California State Senator Abel Maldonado ran for election to the Santa Maria City Council in 1994 after being involved in a building dispute?

Facts on topics related to City Council

New York City Council

• Margaret Chin is the first Asian American to represent New York City's Chinatown district on the city council?

Chicago City Council

• Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in council votes?
• Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly?
• the Chicago City Council revoked the McCarthy Building's Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop?

Mayor

• centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death on January 10, 2010?
• Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moved into the notoriously miserable Cabrini-Green housing project in 1981?
• Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
• Mayor Tom Weisner once considered outlawing untimely holiday decorations, when citizens of Aurora, Illinois, complained of Christmas decorations abounding during the summer?
• Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party?
• Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869?
• wool-stapler George Goodman was a four-time mayor of Leeds?
• Arsenio Lacson was the first person to be elected to three terms as mayor of Manila?
• Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city?
• Corippo, despite being a contender for Switzerland's smallest municipality with a population of only 17, has its own website, coat of arms, mayor and town council?