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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 4 Collections and/or Records:

Chicago Tribune. Frank L. Hughes Papers (1)

 Collection
Identifier: XI-182
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Frank Hughes (1908-1972) during his 29-year tenure at the Chicago Tribune (1942-1971).

Dates: 1943 - 1968

Chicago Tribune. Frances Peck Grover (Mae Tinee) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: XI-203
Abstract

This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Frances Peck Grover, whose career at the Chicago Tribune (1911-1945) was spent chiefly as movie critic (the first to write under the name "Mae Tinee"). This archive includes family correspondence and photographs, correspondence and pictures of movie stars of the 1920s, and scrapbooks of newspaper columns.

Dates: 1895 - 1944

Chicago Tribune. E. R. Noderer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: XI-231
Abstract E.R. Noderer (1907-1996) was a Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent from 1939 to 1950; a general assignment reporter in Chicago from 1950 to 1952; editorial page editor and writer for the Washington Times-Herald from 1952 to 1954; and a member of the promotion and publicity department of the Chicago Tribune until his retirement in 1972. This collection stems from his years of travel as a...
Dates: 1939 - 1977

Chicago Tribune. Bob Wiedrich papers

 Collection
Identifier: XI-433
Abstract Papers of Robert ("Bob") Weidrich, reporter for the Chicago Tribune from the 1950s to the 1990s. The topics covered include many events and themes of the day, including corrupt politicians and mobsters, police scandals, insurance fraud, nursing home irregularities, crime syndicates, and the Richard Speck trial. The papers contain an exhaustive collection of clippings of Weidrich's writings for the Tribune, including the "Tower ticker" column; his memoirs; and stories related to Weidrich by...
Dates: 1950s-1990s