My Chicago

Name: My Chicago
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ISBN: 9780810120877

ISBN-10: 0810120879

ISBN-13: 9780810120877

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jane Byrne, Paul Simon

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This is the story of Jane Byrne's rise from campaign worker to the mayor's office, all within the bruising arena of Chicago politics. Part sociopolitical history, part memoir, it begins with a history of the city and her early life before she enters politics and service in the Chicago machine.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Jane Byrne was born in 1933 in Chicago. In 1979 she became the first woman mayor of Chicago after defeating the Democratic Party candidate in the primary. Already the subject of two full-length biographies, Byrne is considered a trailblazer in local and national politics. She still lives in Chicago.



Acknowledgments


Foreword : The First Meeting



A Magic of Its Own



The Spirit of Chicago



Haymarket Violence



The White City



Coming of Age



Modern Chicago



The Roaring Twenties



Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?



The Dark Shadow of War



Postwar Prosperity



The King Maker



The Challenge to the Machine



The City That Wasn't Working



It Can't Happen Here



The Tumultuous Seventies



Daley's Last Hurrah



The New Mayor of Chicago



Great Dreams for Chicago



A Time of Affluence



Madame Ex-Mayor


Afterword


References


Bibliography


Index