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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Thomas G. Byrne, longtime cop who headed multiple departments under Mayor Richard M. Daley, dead at 74

Commissioner of Streets and Sanitation Thomas Byrne keeps a watchful eye on the city streets for the up coming winter storm on Jan. 6, 2010 at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications. (Sun-Times file)

Thomas G. Byrne got stuff done, and it got him far.

He started as a street cop and rose to the rank of deputy superintendent at the Chicago Police Department before former Mayor Richard M. Daley tapped him to head two high-profile departments: Transportation, and Streets and Sanitation.

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