Chicago Tribune facts for kids
Headquarters building
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Tribune Company |
| Publisher | Tony W. Hunter |
| Founded | June 10, 1847 |
| Headquarters | Tribune Tower 435 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 |
| Circulation | 441,508 daily 768,073 Sunday |
| ISSN | 1085-6706 |
The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most-read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It is the eighth-largest newspaper in the United States by circulation.
1948 U.S. presidential election
The paper is well known for a mistake it made during the 1948 presidential election. At that time, much of its composing room staff was on strike. The early returns led editors to believe (along with many in the country) that the Republican candidate Thomas Dewey would win. An early edition of the next day's paper carried the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman", turning the paper into a collector's item. Democrat Harry S. Truman won and proudly brandished the newspaper in a famous picture taken at St. Louis Union Station. Beneath the headline was a false article, written by Arthur Sears Henning, which purported to describe West Coast results although written before East Coast election returns were available.
Images for kids
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An 1870 advertisement for Chicago Tribune subscriptions
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The lead editorial in the first issue the Chicago Tribune published after the Great Chicago Fire
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Tribune in 1919
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Tribune Tower, Howells & Hood, architects, opened 1925
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Chicago Tribune building
See also
In Spanish: Chicago Tribune para niños
