William M Beavers was an American Democratic politician from Illinois.
11 Facts About William Beavers
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William Beavers served as a Chicago alderman, and later as a County Commissioner for the 4th district of Cook County, Illinois, which encompasses part of Chicago's South Side and southern suburbs.
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Later, William Beavers' father worked for a wrecking company and died in an accident on the job.
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William Beavers was educated in the Chicagos and attended Harold Washington College.
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William Beavers was an alderman of the 7th Ward in Chicago's far south side.
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William Beavers said he had read Linda Lovelace's autobiography Ordeal, and had visited a topless beach and a nude beach, but had never visited a nudist camp, speaking on April 11,2000 during testimony at a public hearing before the Finance Committee of the Chicago City Council on a proposed designation of a part of Walton Street in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood, the location of the first Playboy Club, as "Hugh Hefner Way" in honor of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
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In 2006, William Beavers reportedly engineered a complex deal concerning the retirement of Cook County Board President John Stroger, who suffered a stroke in March of that year.
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The deal called for Beavers to assume Stroger's County Commissioner seat, Stroger's son, Todd Stroger, to replace his father on the November 2006 ballot as County Board president, and for Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley to appoint Beavers' daughter and chief of staff, Darcel Beavers, to her father's 7th Ward seat.
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On February 23,2012, William Beavers was indicted on four federal charges alleging he filed false tax returns and "endeavoring to obstruct and impede" the Internal Revenue Service.
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William Beavers was sentenced to six months in jail, a $10,000 fine, and ordered to pay almost $31,000 in back taxes.
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William Beavers died on October 26,2024, at the age of 89.