Jane Byrne

Jane Margaret Byrne, Birth Name: Jane Margaret Burke, ( born May 24, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American politician of the Democratic Party, which was in 1979 the first woman in the office of the mayor of Chicago.

Life

The daughter of a manager in the steel industry studied after the completion of Saint Scholastic High School in Chicago, Chemistry and Biology at Saint Mary- of-the- Woods College in Indiana. This study then placed them on the Barat College in Illinois and continued in 1965 earned a Bachelor of Science (BS Chemistry and Biology ). She was appointed by Mayor Richard J. Daley to head the Office of Consumer Protection of Chicago and dismissed by Daley's successor Michael A. Bilandic 1976 1968.

In the area code (Primary ) for the presentation of the democratic candidate for mayor 1979, she ran against Bilandic as internal party opponent and won the preselection. One reason for the defeat of his Bilandic was criticized in the population mismanagement at the Chicago Blizzard in 1979.

On April 16, 1979, she was the successor of Bilandic finally first woman mayor of Chicago. Together with the entrepreneur Charlie Soo she sat down in 1981 for the renovation of the West Argyle Street Historic District, a, a conservation area in the Uptown Chicago. In 1983, she succumbed code then but even against their intra-party challenger and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, Harold Washington, the successor of Jane Byrne as mayor of Chicago became the first African American on April 29, 1983.

After she retired from political life in 1992 and wrote her memoirs under the title My Chicago.