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'''Bernard "Berny" L. Stone''' (November 24, 1927 – December 22, 2014) was alderman of the 50th Ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois from 1973 to 2011. The 50th Ward encompasses part of Chicago's far North Side and includes the [[West Ridge, Chicago|West Ridge]]
Stone was a part of the "[[Council Wars|Vrdolyak 29]]", which opposed Mayor [[Harold Washington]]'s agenda.<ref>{{cite web |first=Bob |last=Crawford |title=Bob Crawford Audio Archive |url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/Crawfordf.html |publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago |date=September 28, 1983 |access-date=May 16, 2011}}</ref> Though he was a [[Cook County Democratic Party|Democrat]] for most of his life, Stone briefly followed Alderman [[Edward Vrdolyak]] to the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], and unsuccessfully ran against [[Carol Moseley Braun]] for [[Cook County, Illinois|Cook County]] [[Recorder of deeds|Recorder of Deeds]] in [[1988 Cook County, Illinois elections#Recorder of Deeds|1988]]. Stone was a protagonist in a protracted legal conflict with the neighboring suburb of [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston]] in 1993–1994. Employees of Stone's 2007 re-election campaign were convicted of vote fraud in 2010. Stone was "outspoken" and "relished the rough and tumble of politics".<ref name=tribobit/>
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