Editing Jane Byrne (section)

====Appointments and personnel====
In her first year in office, significant instances of turnover in prominent city positions led critics to accuse Byrne of running a "revolving door administration".<ref name="CSMJun1980"/>

While Byrne initially made inclusive moves with regards to appointments as mayor: shepherding the hiring of the city's first African-American and female school superintendent [[Ruth B. Love]] which she later pivoted away from this.<ref name="crusader1"/> Among the later steps that Byrne took that upset many of the progressives and Blacks that had supported her in the 1979 mayoral campaign was replacing Black members of the [[Chicago Board of Education]] and [[Chicago Housing Authority]] board with White members, some of whom even held stances that critics viewed as racist.<ref name=Felsenthal/><ref name="Hautzinger"/>

During the 1979 mayoral election, Byrne pledged to fire [[Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department]] [[James E. O'Grady]], accusing him of having "politicized" the department.<ref name="battleforthebadge">{{cite web |last1=Dold |first1=R. Bruce |title=BATTLE FOR THE BADGE ESCALATES IN COOK COUNTY |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-10-31-8603220079-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune  |access-date=November 2, 2020 |date=October 31, 1986}}</ref><ref name="Gradel">{{cite web |last1=Gradel |first1=Thomas J. |title=Chicago Mayors Have History Of Axing Top Cops Instead Of Cleaning Up System |url=https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/illinois-issues-chicago-mayors-have-history-of-axing-top-cops-instead-of-cl |website=Illinois Public Media |access-date=June 18, 2020 |language=en |date=June 7, 2016}}</ref> Days after her inauguration, O'Grady resigned.<ref name="Gradel"/> Later that year, she relieved interim superintendent Joseph DiLeonardi of command.<ref name="chicagocop">{{cite web |title=HEADS OF THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT {{!}} ChicagoCop.com |url=https://www.chicagocop.com/history/people/heads-of-the-chicago-police-department/ |publisher=ChicagoCop.com |access-date=December 3, 2019}}</ref> She appointed [[Samuel Nolan]] interim superintendent in his place,<ref name="heise1">{{cite web |last1=Heise |first1=Kenan |title=Sam Nolan, First Black Police Superintendent |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-09-9710090153-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune  |access-date=November 3, 2020 |date=October 9, 1997}}</ref> Nolan was the first African American to serve as head of the [[Chicago Police Department]].<ref name="dna1">{{cite web |title=Many Superintendents Have Tried To Reform the Chicago Police (Timeline) |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151218/downtown/many-superintendents-have-tried-reform-chicago-police-timeline/ |website=DNAinfo Chicago |access-date=October 30, 2020 |date=December 8, 2015 |archive-date=November 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102232745/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151218/downtown/many-superintendents-have-tried-reform-chicago-police-timeline/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="tribune11jan">{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=William |last2=Schlikerman |first2=Becky |title=Fred Rice, 1926–2011 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-xpm-2011-01-11-ct-met-obit-fred-rice-20110110-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=October 30, 2020 |date=January 11, 2011}}</ref> In January 1980, [[Richard J. Brzeczek]] took office as permanent superintendent, having been appointed by Byrne.<ref name="chicagocop"/> On her last day in office, after the resignation of Brzeczek as superintdendent, Byrne appointed James E. O'Grady as interim superintendent.<ref name=chicagocop/> By this time, Byrne had rescinded her past criticisms of O'Grady.<ref name="battleforthebadge"/> In 1980, Byrne appointed William R. Blair as [[Chicago fire commissioner]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zielinski |first1=Graeme |title=RETIRING CHIEF KEPT POLITICAL FIRE AT BAY |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-11-15-9611150148-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=November 15, 2021 |language=en |date=November 15, 1996}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT |url=https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/cfd/general/PDFs/HistoryOfTheChicagoFireDepartment_1.pdf#:~:text=1922%20November%2022%2C%20John%20Cullerton%20is%20appointed%20as,Blue%20Island.%201927%205-11%20cards%20put%20in%20service. |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/cfd/general/PDFs/HistoryOfTheChicagoFireDepartment_1.pdf#:~:text=1922%20November%2022%2C%20John%20Cullerton%20is%20appointed%20as,Blue%20Island.%201927%205-11%20cards%20put%20in%20service. |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |website=chicago.gov |publisher=City of Chicago |access-date=June 19, 2021}}</ref>