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...Jane M. Byrne, 45, shocked Chicago when she defeated Mayor Michael Bilandic and the Democratic machine in a primary and then went on last April to become mayor of the city where she had been born and raised. A protégée of late Mayor Richard Daley, Byrne had spent ten years as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales and served one year as co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic Central Committee. She is a scrappy reformer who is out to rechannel the Democratic machine's energies into delivering services for Chicago's neglected neighborhoods, especially...
...managed to save its old public library building after several attempts to replace it with a modernistic structure. The 1897 building had long been inadequate for the central library; it was reincarnated as a branch library and a cultural center, in large part through the efforts of Mrs. Richard Daley, widow of the mayor. Though its vast mosaic-lined entrance halls and twin marble staircases leave little room for a functional library, the interior has been restored in all its original quattrocento palazzo splendor at a cost of $12 million. Architect Gerrard Pook of the 99-year-old firm...
Harvard claims it protected Cambridge neighborhoods by drawing the "Daley Red Line" in 1972 as a real-estate purchasing boundary officials promised Harvard would not cross. Some Cambridge residents claim the University broke the agreement this year when it leased property outside the line with an option to buy. Others worry about what will happen when the agreement expires next year...
Hooft and Fine then presented special awards to trainer Pete Provinzano, and Barney Daley, equipment manager, who is retiring after 37 years at Harvard...
...that tough Democrat Jane Byrne, 44, was going to roll up over a weak Republican to become the Second City's first lady. When the votes were counted, Byrne had 82.1% of the vote-the biggest landslide in Chicago history. The political heirs of the late Richard J. Daley were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko, who milked the bestselling Boss from Daley's two decades in office, already refers to the gracious woman . . . young woman . . . girl as "Mayor...