Jane Byrne - RIP

Various media coverage all over the place. Here's a sampling:

• Jane Byrne was not mighty, like her mentor, Richard J. Daley.
  
  She was not beloved, like her successor, Harold Washington.
  
  Nor was she long-serving, like her bitter rival, Richard M. Daley.
  
  But she was mayor, Chicago’s first and only female mayor — making Chicago the largest city in the United States to elect a female chief executive — serving a single, tempestuous term, ushering the city into the 1980s, leaving her own colorful legacy during a time of political change, social upheaval and financial crisis.

But of course, coppers will remember her supporting the efforts to organize. The argument can be made that much of that has been squandered away over the past decades, but at the time, it was the biggest beneficial change to come down the pike in history.