Chicago tribune
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:
Chicago tribune. Advertising Records
This series consists of a single volume produced by the Chicago Tribune, without a titlepage. It contains "complete records of advertising printed in Chicago newspapers" for the years 1914 and 1915. These two sections of text are separated by copies documents (chiefly surveys of residents), and photographs, concerning a few Chicago neighborhoods