Jane Byrne

Jane Byrne

Jane Margaret Byrne (born May 24, 1934) was the first and to-date only female Mayor of Chicago. She served from April 16, 1979 to April 29, 1983. Chicago is the largest city in the United States to have had a female mayor as of 2012.


Read more about Jane Byrne:  Early Political Career, Term As Mayor, Later Career, Personal Life

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    “Sleep, and forget all things but one,
    Heard in each wave of sea,—
    How lonely all the years will run
    Until I rest by thee.”
    —John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley (1835–1895)