65 ILCS 20/21-36 : Government — Municipalities — Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941 — Optional - City of Chicago Adoption of Article —Redistricting City into Fifty Wards —36 - City to have fifty wards

The city of Chicago shall be divided into fifty wards. In the formation of wards the population of each shall be as nearly equal as practicable and each shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory.