Services set for former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne
Funeral services for former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne will take place Monday at a church in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
According to the funeral home handling arrangements, visitation will be from 9 a.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, followed by an 11 a.m. Mass.
The burial will take place at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston.
Byrne died Friday at a hospice in Chicago. She was 81.
Byrne became Chicago's first and only female mayor with her election in 1979. During her single term, Byrne was credited with bringing major festivals to the city. She also made the city more welcoming to filmmakers who flocked to Chicago to make movies such as "Blues Brothers."
She made national headlines by moving into a notorious housing project to draw attention to violence there.