Editing Waukegan, Illinois (section)

=== City council ===
The members of the city council<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aldermen |website=Waukegan, IL – Official Website|url=https://www.waukeganil.gov/188/Aldermen|access-date=April 11, 2021}}</ref> as of 2021 are:

{| class="wikitable"
|+Waukegan City Council
!Ward
!Name
!Party affiliation
|-
|1st Ward
|Sylvia Sims Bolton
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|2nd Ward
|Jose A. Guzman
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|3rd Ward
|Juan A. Martinez
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|4th Ward
|Victor M. Felix
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|5th Ward
|Edith L. Newsome
|{{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
|-
|6th Ward
|Keith E. Turner
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|7th Ward
|Michael P. Donnenwirth
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|8th Ward
|Lynn M. Florian
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|-
|9th Ward
|Thomas J. Hayes
|{{Party shading/Independent}} | Independent
|-
|}

Members of the city council serve for four years and are all elected in the same election year. The last election was in April 2023.