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Friday Unhappy Hour Video: Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne told, “We need jobs, not eggs”

11.14.2014 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

America's first big-city woman mayor, Chicago's Jane Byrne, died today. The promise-turned-debacle of her one-term administration is fairly well encapsulated by this six-minute video. As part of her ill-conceived public gesture to move into the Cabrini Green public housing complex, she planned an Easter celebration that began well, and then went all the way bad.

I interviewed Byrne a few years ago, and she still seethed about political slights three decades old.

Jane Byrne—rest, finally, in peace.

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