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Jane Margaret Byrne (née Burke; May 24, 1933 – November 14, 2014) was an American politician who served as the 50th mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983. Prior to her tenure as mayor, Byrne served as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales from 1969 until 1977, the only female in the mayoral cabinet.
Jane Byrne. As a woman once again occupies the fifth floor of City Hall, Chicago Stories remembers the city’s first female mayor. After pulling off one of Chicago’s greatest political upsets, Jane Byrne found herself caught between the political machine that shaped her and the reformers who elected her.
Nov 14, 2014 · Jane Byrne, with an assist from mighty snowstorms and a tone-deaf Chicago mayor who preceded her, will forever be known as the feisty woman who in 1979 toppled Chicago’s formidable...
Nov 15, 2014 · Jane M. Byrne, who stunned Chicago’s Democratic machine in 1979 when she was elected mayor after sharply criticizing the incumbent for his handling of a devastating winter — a victory...
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...
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 after a single term, died Nov. 14...
Nov 14, 2014 · Chicago’s first female mayor Jane Byrne died Friday, at 81. Born in Chicago. Her father, William Burke, rose from salesman to vice president of Inland Steel.
Nov 15, 2014 · Jane Byrne died yesterday in her apartment overlooking the city she loved, riled and entertained. She was elected mayor of Chicago in 1979 - the first woman mayor.
Nov 14, 2014 · Former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, the city's first and only female mayor, died Friday at the age of 81.
Nov 14, 2014 · CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Mayor Jane Byrne, the first and only woman to serve as mayor of Chicago, has died. Byrne's daughter, Kathy Byrne, has told family friends her mother died at 10 a.m.,...
