1843 - The Prophet Joseph attended the city council meeting as the newly elected mayor of the City of Nauvoo.  He encouraged the new city council on "relieving the city from all unnecessary expenses and burdens, and not attempt to improve the city, but enact such ordinances as would promote peace and good order; and the people would improve the city; capitalists would come in from all quarters and build mills, factories, and machinery of all kinds; new buildings would arise on every hand, and Nauvoo would become a great city" (History of the Church, 5:270).