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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 · Robert Abbott Sengstacke—Getty Images. By Justin Worland. November 14, 2014 1:04 PM EST. F ormer Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, the city’s first and only female mayor, died at age 81, her daughter...
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 17, 2014 · Known as a trailblazer, not only for breaking the proverbial glass ceiling for women in Chicago politics, but for how her visions shaped Chicago's culture today, Byrne died Friday at the age of...
Nov 14, 2014 · Jane Byrne, who capitalized on Chicago’s slow reaction to a snowstorm to score one of the biggest election upsets in the city’s history and become its first female mayor, died on Friday. She...
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...
