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Born Jane Burke in 1933, Jane Byrne grew up in the Sauganash neighborhood on the city’s North Side. In 1956, she married William Byrne, and the couple had a daughter named Katherine a year later. In 1959, William, a Marine pilot, died while trying to land his plane in fog in Glenview.
Nov 15, 2014 · Jane Byrne, who rode the effects of a snowstorm to victory in 1979 as the first, and only, woman to be elected mayor of Chicago but whose stormy tenure ended...
Nov 15, 2014 · Jane Byrne, the first female mayor of Chicago, died at the age of 81. NPR's Scott Simon revisits a conversation from earlier this year with Kathy Byrne, the former mayor's daughter. SCOTT...
Nov 14, 2014 · Byrne is defeated by U.S. Rep. Harold Washington in Chicago’s Democratic mayoral primary election. Washington was the city’s first African-American mayor. The Circle Interchange where the ...
Nov 15, 2014 · CHICAGO (WLS) -- Jane Byrne, Chicago's first and only female mayor, died on Friday. She was 81. Her daughter, Kathy Byrne, said the former mayor died around 10 a.m. Friday. She died peacefully...
Nov 15, 2014 · Jane Byrne, who stunned Chicago's powerful political machine in becoming the first and still only woman elected mayor of the nation's third-largest city, died today at the age of 81. She is...
Nov 14, 2014 · Jane Byrne, Chicago’s first and only female mayor, has died at the age of 81. Byrne’s daughter, Kathy, says her mother died Thursday at a hospice in Chicago. She’s known as the woman who beat...
