Jane Byrne - A Chicago Stories Documentary 

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Jane Byrne will always be dear to me. She awarded my father in 1980, Sgt. George Coleman Sr, with the Lambert Tree Award for bravery. She's in all his award pictures, so she's family ❤

Back to back history was made!! First woman then black man. This is DEFINITELY OF EPIC PROPORTIONS.

Chicago is a wonderful city. Mayor Byrne tried very hard. A great documentary.

Great lady!ahead of her time,and wish we had more like her!

I remember seeing her on TV (prior to her election) discussing the relative merits of different types of street salt. She definitely had it down. Nice retrospective. I didn't know about Mayor Daley seeing her at all those events with JFK. That's got to be a unique entry point to Chicago politics.

Nice doc on the Mayor. She was the first mayor I remember, being 6 yo when she assumed office. I remember thinking that she actually lived in Cabrini like as a regular resident. Then my grandmother told me she was just doing that for the cameras. Of course I wasn’t into politics back then but I remember liking the lady. I thought it was cool we had a lady mayor. But then I also thought it was cool we had a black mayor which was my first time going to the Taste of Chicago.

I just love that City of Chicago. I miss dearly...❤️

Lol! I lived there when she was mayor, I loved her! To say she wasn't afraid of anyone is kind of funny. Holy Toledo! Everybody was afraid of her!

By far my late dad’s favorite Chicago mayor. He went out of his way to attend her burial service when she passed. I wish he could’ve seen this one, along with the 2 great Daley docs that are on RU-vid.

My father, Sgt. George Coleman Sr. received the Lambert Tree Award from Mayor Byrne for bravery.

Thank you for this film. It changed my perspective on Jane Byrne as a mayor.

Say what you want about Jane but Lightfoot pales in comparison. Let's be honest, Byrne had a much harder time and greater battles than Chicago's current mayor has, or will face

Harold Washington’s critique of Byrne was spot-on. She had only herself to blame. A loose cannon herself, and one for a husband that she let play an active role in being the face of her administration, and her volatile temper and lack of poise are why she failed. She didn’t realize that with a term of x years, and lacking a huge base, she needed to work like crazy to form a base and work with people. instead she worked super hard to alienate people. recipe for failure.

Another stunningly good piece of history about a place. I've never been and really have no connection to. Really oddly compelling.

I lived in Chicago during this era.. was a Great Town

She was a great mayor and genuinely cared about people living in the projects. She loved Chicago !

So, there is this thing: THE SEINE (SANE) REPORT. You see, along with the snow buried cars on the streets of Chicago, the parking meters were buried right along side the cars. It was the Seine report that discovered parking meter revenues from the same parking meters that had been under 9 feet of snow. THIS was Mayor Bilandic's down fall. Just recalling.

Watching this seeing Ed Burke being a villain in the 70’s and now going to a federal prison is some long awaited justice.

Thank you.

My great- grandfather in Mississippi was talking about Jane.

Chicago must be a very difficult city to run.

I think we need to stop looking for help outside of ourselves and start looking for help within our own people. It's not the government, is not politicians but it is ourselves that need to go to work, father our children, become successful by graduating and therefore giving back to our own community. We need to stop blaming others and start taking initiative

She moved in cabrni green projects for 3 days and was gone.some say she was never there just looked like she was there

I saw her on that documentary about Cabrini greens when she moved into the dangerous projects for a lil while

It really takes me back to see her exiting her apartment building at the 39:43 mark. In 1981, I was in my early 30s and single, and rented a studio unit one floor above her in that building. A couple of times when I was leaving for work, she and her two bodyguards got on the elevator, and we rode down together, just the four of us. No one spoke, but I sure wanted to. I had little interest in politics at the time, but I thought she was pretty hot. Okay, inappropriate, but true.

This was the beginning of the end of the Chicago I loved

In California too. Graft, today weed politics. I remember we got to stay home from school during that whole snowstorm when Jane Byrne was then elected.

Thanks for the upload. I had never heard of this mayor...

you dont make it to the top without a certain amount of ego and guts, she got as far as she could get without more support..and without being a man. she deserved better, she loved Chicago and it's people

I kinda hate fact they didn’t show any clips of AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 191.

I was in Love with Jane Byrne. 😂 absolutely!

Ha. That's "my mom" . Badass person. Ain't gonna get a 'Lightfoot" interchange,

I remember when she moved into Cabrini Green. She only stayed for about a week as I recall. She couldn't get out there fast enough. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Good video - the 80s and 90s was a different era. Gangs were organized and so was business. People think Chicago is worse now but look at the stats. We almost hit 1000 murders in 91. Chicagos been better but the internet makes us look bad. I was loaning friends on my block when I was a little kid, no tears either, we knew it was part of life and nobody wanted to show weakness.

Very interesting documentary. She sounded like she was a very divisive person who helped to polarize the city and break promises. But like that guy said, those are the kinds of people who get statues and streets named after them.🤷

Becoming Mayor, of a major city, as the city of Chicago, was Not an easy task for either... Mayor, Jane Byrne, or Mayor, Lori Lightfoot. Both women, had major challenges and obstacles, facing them during their elected terms, in running a City, such as Chicago. Whether, in preference, one Mayor, over the other. Both women, have had their share of major challenges.

Man, even back then she was dealing with a teachers union strike and other ones as well.. Nothing new under the sun.

The real axis of evil the two Eds 😂😂

0:34 My Hero!

I watch this not because I wanted to but because I had to. I lived in Chicago during all three of these administrations. I remember when she moved into Cabrini greens I went to Cabrini greens once. I was robbed at gunpoint I wasn't there 5 minutes. People liked her in the beginning but later they didn't. I think obstacles were thrown in front of her because she was getting into people's business. Black suffered a lot during dailies administration. The vertical slums is exactly what it was piss in the hallways, roaches. Gun violence was ridiculous, as a black man and a child I had to leave Chicago I couldn't stay there I knew I would die. Chicago is a tough City it's a beautiful city Chicago is a city that administratively is run by blacks it's the best looking city in America make New York City look like a mouse trap. I appreciate mayor bryne she really cared about the city. She knew it from the ground up much like Trump. If we had her running for a woman president she would be worth every penny God bless you Jane God bless you. I understand more about you from this documentary. I'm proud that you are a woman and I'm proud that you love Chicago. I wish more of you were around God bless America God bless you. Thank you thank you for all the sacrifices that we don't know about. And God bless you 🙏

And now Ed Burke is under investigation. The irony.

Got to love America.

If you don't know anything. That's great. Because you get to dig your teeth into everything.

The more things change... the more they STAY THE SAME... good luck Chicago... 🇺🇸

I met at the opening of TASTE OF CHICAGO I FOUND HER A GREAT LADY

Was a Great Documentary until you showed LORI LIGHTHEADED.... 💯

Must be something in the water here i am also from chicago illinois

Burke and Verdolyak were crooked, even back then.

The Jimmy Carter of Chicago, both in over their heads.

2:30 👍🏼

She tried and l belive she meant well for people but power got to her head

The Reincarnation of Jane Byrne; WGN’s BRONAGH TUMULTY ❤❤❤!!! 🥰😍

Burke and Vrdoliak lol they controlled the purse strings in Chicago and nobody was able to get rid of them until over 40 years later

Whomever made this shouldn't put lightfoot the wrost mayor of chicago.

Jane did the "you people" routine at 42:40.

Like any politician get what you want then f everyone

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she plays the, or a piano more, or less like i myself being of my person types as in fairly well, &, but then other than that i being of person of my same self have always kind of wondered what was up with that move into the cabrini public housing projects, & as to whether, or not she herself was supposedly carving out some, or such new territory for from well-to-do, to rich caucasians, or white preppys, or the baby-boomers, or much rather than instead of for hippies, or flower-children(formerly beatniks), or whether, or not she herself had really done that as a supposed, or so-called political strategy to establish urban renewal, & at the same time to supposedly curb the uprising, or increasing city violence brewing among the different street factions being of which was permeating that being of our own great metropolis even at that time, &/or to possibly compliment that being of a fictional plot being of which was the content of a vintage classic pop-culture hollywood, california motion-picture-production, movie-flick, or film called by that being of it's name title of 'the-warriors'(remember the movie-scene when that being of one of the movers, &/or shakers for this one particular clique was supposedly attempting to unite the many different street factions to possibly establish that being of a central committee headquarters being of which would supposedly supervise the different street-gangs whereas anyone of some, or of such would have to answer to it, & quite similar to that being of the five families being of which run that being of gangland, or hoodlum america for the different mafia families, or mob families when the gangstas, or hoodlums were more, much more honorable than how now they themselves are more like the less loyal neanderthals being of which make up the street animals of our day, in these modern times, & being of the likes who do not respect funeral processions, & will shoot at some, or such of anybody, &/or everybody attending a funeral of some, or of such of a local vicinity area neighborhood community rival street faction, or street gang two-bit-punk who has not really much class, or little class if any at all, & you know like say, or how you say being of the likes of some, or of such of the much more notorious ones like say for example chief o'keefe, young thug, &/or etcetera, & then have the police come in droves to deliver 'take-outs' more than the pizza delivery guy, hah-hah, heh-heh, & no offense is really meant to be possibly directed against any of the relatives, &/or friends being of the surviving family members of the young black male who was lighted up like some kind of a christmas tree by some, or such of our chicago's finest, not that all police officers, or cops are bad, & you know like say upon one of our city's interstate highways, & whereas the male suspect in question who was causing a commotion with the way that he himself was supposedly running up, & down that being of the same of the said in question, &/or the former, or previous mentioned was interrupting the traffic flow, & then was supposedly shot down in cold blood with sixteen rounds fired off into his physical body, & being that because he himself was supposedly upon a criminally illegal, or unlawful drug substance), crazy times we ourselves are living in reflecting the movie-flick scene, or rather the movie-flick scene reflection real life for the troubles of a major metropolitan city within the continental u.s.a./united-states-of-america, & with this global pandemic, & many other social plagues, & with proverbial neighbors from damn hell upon that being of the increase, & like the one being of whom i have to be bothered with now where i myself am at as a tenant in one of the rougher neighborhoods of a less preferred one being of which is an ethnic minority, &/or likewise more poverty-strickened, or more crime-ridden one, & thanks to a neighbor from damn hell male character having flipped the script upon me by getting me kicked to the curb as they say with the management of a building where i myself was previously at as a tenant in one of the more, much more preferred vicinity area neighborhood communities being of a multi-racial, &/or less poverty-strickened, or less crime-ridden one, & by how he himself had convinced the real estate administrative personnel a.k.a. property-owner/s, or landlord/s to just give me the paperwork document/s of something similar to an eviction notice being of a non-renewal of an apartment rental lease agreement notification memo, & being of which he himself should have received much rather than instead of me, & after i myself, or person of my same self as an individual had went through all of the proper policies, &/or procedures of protocol to state my grieviances to not only the management of the building, well whatever, or however said, or whatever they themselves are to be possibly called, &/or to address that being of the issue of the social injustice being of which he himself would daily, &/or nightly inflict against my person being of his two-cent power-plays as he himself would likewise disrespect my rights, &/or privileges to some, or such peace of mind as well as he himself would just continue to quite regularly violate that being of his own apartment rental lease agreement, &, but then nevertheless whereas my person had also taken that being of the liberty, or liberties, to address this one particular sort, or type of noise-maker, problem-neighbor being of a public-nuisance a.k.a. neighbor from damn hell male character to our chicago's finest being of the 'boys-in-blue' as i had reported him, or he himself, to the police a number of times, more than quite a few times with likewise little, or no avail, anyway though, or regardless whereas i myself take my hat off to this one particular former, or ex, &/or first woman mayor of the city of metropolitan chicago, illinois u.s.a. being of whom had paved the way for our first black woman mayor of the city of chicago(being of whom is a lesbian, & being of which is another historical fact), hip hop hooray to former, or ex mayor jane byrne, ...

Amazing mayor ! RIP. One of a couple Democrat politicians I respect

I remember all this on news I was 10. I didn’t know she was Democrat. Sounds like she was a good woman and cared about people. But was sabotaged by her own party🤦‍♀️democrats. 🙏

Nick wa DJ for Jane Byrne at the street fair.

First She backed Carter,but then backed Ted Kennedy.Reagan took Illinois and even Cook County abd other Democratic Strongholds.But Byrne and Later Washington had to eat crow when candidates they backed lost big time.

How's My Polskis? What's up Vlad?!

I have no comment...

What? She's not less of a person because she has a personality? And do you think nowadays it is? I got hunted because of mine. Maybe cuz I'm not a woman? Well I have a personality too. I know that's not right. Rock on rock eye.

Misdemeanor 💪🏿🫡💯❤️

"Honkeyfest" 1982?! Now that they have one of their own in power, Mayor Lightfoot, Chicago has never been in worse condition.

Gay is who ever loves you back!

All true 100% Lightfoot doesn't do anything. MAYOR BURNS is what important to her is faith,family,country.

She was the original Hillary with no Bill

I have a college buddy who grew up in Chicago and he said that Byrne was a complete disaster as mayor.

Unfortunately she was not a very good mayor

What I took from watching this is the disenfranchised voters of Chicago continue to vote Democrat even though nothing ever changes. The true definition of insanity.

Nobody is worrying about what Lightfoot is wearing. They're just trying to figure out how such a hideous beast walks on two legs.

🤮 Cabrini-Green--1. Jane Byrne--0.

It'disgusting the way that young black man jump out in fron of her to say you'll be defeated. Like an animal. And the only reason she got defeated because the other guy was black. It's a shame that in a great city of Chicago black voters decide who will be mayor. This woman really tried to help them. Even though they need to be saved from themselves.

The Democrat machine.. The original template on how to destroy an American city.

old hack carol marin.....dan proft got her number