April 04, 1979 (vol. 89, iss. 147) • Page Image 2
…Page 2-Wednesday, April 4, 1979-The Michigan Daily CHICAGO'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR: Byrne w CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - Democrat Jane Byrne, the gutsy party worker who toppled the party's machine after it spurned her, received an over- whelming mandate from Chicago voters yesterday to become the city's first elected woman mayor. With about one-third of the city's 3,100 precincts reported, Byrne had 232,454 votes to Republican Wallace Johnson's 51,179. A...…