Word: ackroyd
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...what really burned Her Honor was a picture taken last summer by her official photographer, Martha Leonard. It shows the mayor and her daughter Kathy, 22, mugging as gangsters' molls with Comedians John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, who were in Chicago to film the movie The Blues Brothers. Kathy thought the photo was "cute" and permitted Leonard to give a print to Us magazine. Byrne reacted like a gangbuster, demoting Leonard to the photo pool, with a pay reduction from $21,000 to $15,000. Leonard quit. Said she: "The photo was shot when the city had fewer problems...