Good morning, Chicago. Here are some highlights from the Chicago Tribune's archives in honor of the newspaper's 175th anniversary.
It was"gimme five" as Mayor Jane Byrne shook hands with youngsters on April 2, 1981, outside a Cabrini-Green building, where she earlier waved to the crowd from a window of her fourth-floor apartment.In 1979, a political novice named Jane Byrne became mayor of Chicago.
She beat out Mayor Michael Bilandic, who famously blamed his loss on his administration’s fumbling of a January blizzard that had dumped more than 30 inches of snow over a couple of weeks.In the spring of 1981, with Chicago’s most notorious public housing project reeling from 10 murders in three months, Byrne announced her intent to move into an apartment in Cabrini-Green in what some deemed a political stunt.
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