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Jane Byrne #46846829
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Mayor Jane Byrne is embraced by an admirer at a party for seniors on Christmas Day, 1979 in Cicago's City Hall. In 1979 Byrne became the first and only female elected mayor of Chicago. The Democratic mayor served one term before being beaten in the Democratic primary by Harold Washington in 1983. Feisty and outspoken, Byrne died at 81 on November 14, 2014.
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