Did you catch Chicago Stories: Jane Byrne on WTTW last night? Read about Mayor Byrne here, and explore the website for more! ChicagoStoriesWTTW
Image: ST-10001984-0057, Chicago Sun-Times collection, Chicago History MuseumBorn 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.
Though she was a protégée of Daley and his machine politics, Byrne turned against the machine after Daley’s death in 1976. She publicly accused Daley’s successor, Mayor Michael Bilandic, and other city officials of approving an illegal taxi-fare increase, which got her fired from City Hall. She was also removed from the Cook County Democratic Central Committee. In 1977, she, challenging Bilandic in the primary, though many did not take her challenge seriously at first.
Byrne served one term in office. In her four years as mayor, she created Chicago’s first city-recognized Gay Pride Parade day, and she, bringing the film industry to the city and promoting various citywide and neighborhood festivals, including what would become Taste of Chicago.
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