City Treasurer of Chicago


The City Treasurer of Chicago is an elected official of the City of Chicago.

Current Occupant

The current City Treasurer of Chicago is Democrat Melissa Conyears. Conyears was elected by Chicago citizens on April 2, 2019, and took the oath of office on May 20, 2019. She was preceded in office by Kurt Summers. Conyears was elected in the 2019 Chicago runoff election, which also included the office of mayor, beating previous 47th Ward alderman Ameya Pawar. She is the second African American female to hold to position after Stephanie Neely.

Duties of the Treasurer

The City Treasurer’s Office is the custodian and manager of all cash and investments for the City of Chicago, the four City employee pension funds, and the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund. Additionally, the Treasurer’s Office manages a number of programs that promote financial education and small business growth in Chicago’s neighborhoods. The Treasurer is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, with the Mayor and the Clerk being the others.
The City Treasurer's office operates a web page describing the office's powers and duties.

City Treasurers

City ClerksTermNotes
Melissa Conyears-Ervin2019–Assumed office May 20, 2019
Kurt Summers2014–2019Was appointed in 2014
Stephanie Neely2006–2014Was appointed in 2006
Judith Rice2000-2006Was appointed in 2000
Miriam Santos2000
Barbara Lumpkin1999–2000
Miriam Santos1989–1999
Cecil A. Partee1979–1989
Joseph G. Bertand1971–1979
Marshall Korshak1967–1971
William G. Milota1961–1967
Edmund P. Currey1960–1961Acting treasurer
Sidney D. Deutsch1957–1960Was appointed in 1957
Morris B. Sachs1955–1957
David L. Hartigan1954–1955
William G. Milota1949–1954
Joseph T. Beran1947–1949
Raymond Drymalski1943–1947
Thomas S. Gordon1939–1943
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Gustave A. Brand1935–1937
James A. Kearns1931–1935
August B. Singer1931
Charles S. Peterson1927–1931
John A. Carvenka1923–1927
Clayton F. Smith1921–1923
Henry Stuckart1919–1921
Clayton F. Smith1917–1919
Fred H. Bartlett1916–1917
Charles Sergel1915–1916
Michael J. Flynn1913–1915
Henry Stuckart1911–1913
Isaac N. Powell1909–1911
John E. Traeger1907–1909
Fred W. Blocki1905–1907
Ernst Hummel1903–1906
Charles F Gunther1901–1903
Adam Ortseifen1899–1901
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Adam Wolf1895–1897
Michael J. Bransfield1893–1895
Peter Kiołbassa1891–1893
Bernard Roesing1889–1891
C. Herman Plautz1887–1889
William M. Devine1885–1887
John H. Dunphy1883–1885
Rudolph Brand1881–1883
William C. Saipp1879–1881
Charles R. Larrabee1877–1879
Clinton Briggs1876–1877
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Daniel O'Hara1873–1875
David A. Gage1869–1873
William F. Wentworth1867–1869
Amos G. Throop1865–1867
David A. Gage1863–1865
W.H. Rice1861–1863
Charles H. Hunt1860–1861
Alonzo Harvey City1858–1860
C.N. Holden1857–1858
O.J. Rose1856–1858
William F. DeWolf1855–1856
Uriah P. Harris1854–1855
Edward Manierre1850–1854
William L. Church1848–1850
Andrew Getzler1847–1848
William L. Church1845–1847
Walter S. Gurnee1843–1845
Francis Cornwall Sherman1842–1843
N.H. Bolles1841–1842
Walter S. Gurnee1840
N.H. Bolles1840
George W. Dole1839–1840
Hiram Pearson1837–1839