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Chicago tribune

 Organization

Biography

The Chicago tribune is a daily newspaper which begin publication on June 10, 1847. In the 1850s, under the editorship of Joseph Medill, the Tribune became associated with Abraham Lincoln and the newly-formed Republican Party. Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Medill's grandson, took control of the paper in the 1920s, and ran the paper until his death in 1955. Under him, the Tribune took a firmly conservative and anti-New Deal stance. In 1974 the Tribune was the first newspaper to publish the complete text of the Watergate tapes. In 2008, the Tribune for the first time endorsed a member of the Democratic Party for President of the United States: Barack Obama.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

United Charities of Chicago: its history, 1857-1957, by Gudrun Rom. Chapter 36

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35552000769827]
Identifier: XVIII-35
Abstract

A chapter from an unpublished history of United Charities of Chicago. This chapter deals with summer outings for children, and Camp Algonquin, and the part that the Chicago Tribune played in the organization and finance of these activities

Dates: 1957
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / United Charities of Chicago: its history, 1857-1957, by Gudrun Rom. Chapter 36