(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Channel 2 News has learned that Mayor Byrne is putting Wood Street District Commander Joe McCarthy in charge of the Cabrini-Green police ...

Byrne took the stairs; the elevators at Cabrini-Green rarely worked anyway. The following morning, the mayor told reporters she had spent “a lovely night.” And for that Friday, a “welcome ...

A bathroom before it gets painted prior to Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne moving into a Cabrini-Green apartment on March 24, 1981. (Ernie Cox Jr./Chicago Tribune) 1981: At 8:30 p.m., a limousine ...

The Cabrini-Green Housing Projects was a favorite stomping ground for politicians looking for media attention, the black vote or both. In 1981, Mayor Jane Byrne, who owned a swanky 43rd-floor ...

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then-mayor Jane Byrne decided to prove she was committed to increasing safety in the projects. She was so committed, in fact, that she was going to move into an apartment in Cabrini-Green!

But a few weeks ago, her daughter, Kathy Byrne, joined us to remember her mother's best moment - when a series of murders at the Cabrini-Green Housing Project made the mayor decide to bring more ...

So is Cabrini-Green. The Chicago Housing Authority ... as a violent place where childhoods ran short. When then-Mayor Jane Byrne wanted to make a point about housing troubles in 1981, she moved ...

Shortly before the former mayor's death, Kathy Byrne discussed on NPR one of the ... her husband Jay McMullen at the Near North Side Cabrini-Green Chicago Housing Authority project.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Channel 2 News has learned that Mayor Byrne is putting Wood Street District Commander Joe McCarthy in charge of the Cabrini-Green police ...