Here’s a look back at what Chicago’s mayors have said in their first official addresses during the past 100 years — and how they are viewed now.
in a ruling that health maintenance organizations can be held liable for negligence involving a patient’s medical care. The decision opened the door for a flood of HMO lawsuits.Jane Byrne at her inauguration ceremony as Mayor of Chicago on April 16, 1979. Outgoing mayor Michael Bilandic is at right.
The young widow soon got involved in politics, joining the presidential campaign of Democrat John F. Kennedy. That drew the notice of Daley, himself a key player in Kennedy’s campaign, and Byrne gravitated into the mayor’s powerful political orbit. Daley eventually named her commissioner of the city Department of Consumer Sales, Weights and Measures, an obscure office that Daley felt needed reorganization in the wake of growing consumerism.
Harold Washington takes the oath of office as mayor of Chicago, administered by Circuit Judge Charles Freeman, on April 29, 1983. At right are Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, outgoing mayor Jane Byrne and her husband, Jay McMullen.On April 12, 1983, Harold Washington was elected mayor of Chicago, becoming the first Black man to hold the city’s top office. Washington, a U.S.
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