The Chicago Tribune kicks off a six-week celebration of its 175th anniversay by digging through the paper's archives, a place filled with triumphs and tragedies, oddities and oddballs, events and people both wonderful and wild, writes Rick Kogan.
The Chicago Tribune news room in 1897. This photo, printed in 1938, has been heavily retouched.It is, by its humblest definition, ink on paper, and that is the way it has been for a very long time. For the Chicago Tribune, that time began June 10, 1847, and over the next several Sundays, we will chart the 175-year history of this newspaper.That is, of course, a lot to bite off, for it is a story that has unfolded against the backdrop of this remarkable city.
When the Tribune was born, Chicago was in its infancy, having been incorporated as a city just a decade before. Its streets were clamorous and raucous, but many of its 17,000 or so citizens could see that the city was building rapidly, though none could foretell its future.On the day of the newspaper’s birth, 400 copies were printed and sold for three cents each.
The Tribune has shared this city’s history and, in ways that might surprise, it has also helped to shape that history and you will read about how. You will learn of some of the strong personalities who guided the newspaper — among them Joseph Medill, William Bross, Joseph Petterson and the larger-than-life Robert R. McCormick — and see how the newspaper covered the city’s world fairs and bloody gangsters, mayors and madams, the birth of the skyscraper and the flights of Michael Jordan.
She left the tower shortly after marrying her first husband in 1940. When she did, an in-house publication devoted half a page to the event. Under a headline that read “Marriage of Marilew Saddens the Boys in Editorial” were the signatures of dozens of editors and reporters. My younger brother Mark worked here as an intern and copy editor for three summers in the early 1970s while attending Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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