List of mayors of Champaign, Illinois

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The following is a list of mayors of the city of Champaign, Illinois, United States.

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• E. T. McCann, 1860 {{citation |editor=J.R. Stewart |volume=1 |title=Standard History of Champaign County Illinois |location=Chicago |publisher= Lewis Publishing Company |year= 1918 |page=373 |quote=Mayors of Champaign |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t01z43p3x |via=HathiTrust }}
• D. Gardner, 1861
• J. S. Wright, 1862-1863
• E. L. Sweet, 1864-1865
• C. E. Larned, 1866-1868
• C. B. Smith, 1869-1870
• Levi Dodson, 1872
• J. Dickerson, 1873-1875, 1879
• Sandford Richards, 1874
• Henry Trevett, 1876-1879
• B. C. Beach, 1880, 1885-1886
• L. S. Wilcox, 1881-1882, 1887-1888 {{citation |url=https://champaignil.gov/about-champaign/history/history-of-champaign-city-buildings/ |title=Historical Review of Champaign’s City Buildings Over The Years |author= Dannel McCollum |work=champaignil.gov |publisher=City of Champaign |location=Illinois |access-date= 2025-05-18 }}
• J. B. McKinley, 1883
• W. A. Day, 1883-1884
• P. W. Woody, 1889-1890
• J. B. Harris, 1891-1894
• E. E. Chester, 1895-1896
• J. R. Scott, 1897-1898
• C. J. Sabin, 1899-1900
• Charles J. Mullikin, 1901-1902, c.1931-1936 {{citation |title=Daily Illini |date= September 1, 1931 |url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=DIL19310901.2.220 |via= University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library, Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections }}
• E. S. Swigart, 1903-1904, 1916-1917
• Shields A. Blain, 1905-1908
• S. C. Tucker, 1909, 1917-1922 {{citation |work=Political Graveyard |title= Champaign, Illinois |editor=Lawrence Kestenbaum |url= https://politicalgraveyard.com |access-date= 2025-05-18 }}
• William Coughlin, 1911-1913
• O. B. Dobbins, 1914-1915
• George J. Babb, c.1923-1927, 1944-1951
• George B. Franks, c.1928-1930
• James D. Flynn, c.1935-1941
• M. Flynn, c.1942-1943
• Virgil F. Lafferty, c.1951-1958
• Emerson Dexter, c.1959-1966
• V. Wikoff, c.1967-1974
• W. Bland, c.1975-1978
• Joan Severns, 1979-1983
• Robert Dodd, c.1983-1986
• Dannel McCollum, 1987-1991
• Gerald Schweighart, c.1999-2011 {{citation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010303110849/http://www.ci.champaign.il.us/government/mayor.html |url= http://www.ci.champaign.il.us/government/mayor.html |archive-date=2001-03-03 |title=Mayor & City Council |work=www.ci.champaign.il.us |via=Wayback Machine }}
• Don Gerard, 2011-2015
• Deborah Frank Feinen, 2015-present {{cite news |url=https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/deb-frank-feinen-pulls-ahead-in-mayoral-race |title=Deb Frank Feinen Defeats Champaign Mayor Don Gerard |publisher=Illinois Public Media |date=April 7, 2015 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505182012/https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/deb-frank-feinen-pulls-ahead-in-mayoral-race |via=Wayback Machine }}