death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor religion party office birth_date order residence term_start image article_title term_end name
20 october 1950 chicago , illinois , u.s. frank j. corr chicago , illinois , u.s. martin h. kennelly roman catholic democratic mayor of chicago 1 may 1876 46th chicago , illinois , u.s. april 8 , 1933 edwardjkelly.jpg edward joseph kelly
 1947 edward joseph kelly
edward joseph kelly

edward joseph kelly -lrb- may 1 , 1876october 20 , 1950 -rrb- served as chief engineer of the chicago sanitary district in the 1920s , and later as mayor of chicago , illinois -lrb- 1933 -- 1947 -rrb- ; he was a democrat .
born to stephen and helen -lrb- née lang -rrb- kelly , he was the first of five chicago mayors from bridgeport of chicago 's south side .
kelly was the chief engineer of the chicago sanitary district in the 1920s .
he was sponsored by patrick nash , the owner of a sewer-contracting company that did millions of dollars of business with the city .
he subsequently became president of the south park board , a position that presided over the building of soldier field .
under his tenure soldier field cost $ 8 million , while a similar los angeles stadium only cost $ 1.7 million .
kelly was mayor of chicago during the 1933-34 chicago world 's fair -lrb- century of progress -rrb- which took place during the great depression which included the successful playing of the first official major league baseball all-star game ; kelly initiated for holding a major sport event for the fair to the `` chicago tribune '' .
kelly was famous for banning nelson algren 's 1942 book `` never come morning '' , a novel , from the chicago public library ; the ban remained in force for decades due to the outcry by chicago polonia upon its release .
following the assassination of mayor anton cermak , kelly was hand-picked by his friend , patrick nash , chairman of the cook county democratic party , for the mayoral election of 1933 .
together , kelly and nash built one of the most powerful , and most corrupt , big city political organizations , called the `` kelly-nash machine '' .
in 1947 , kelly acquiesced to the cook county democratic party 's decision to slate a candidate with reform credentials for mayor of chicago and was succeeded by martin h. kennelly .
