Rick Kogan writes on the Tribune's 175th anniversary: 'The ways in which (certain) stories were covered by the Tribune not only set the tone for other papers but attracted tens of thousands of new readers.'
Trolleys and other vehicles stop on Randolph Street outside the main entrance of Chicago's Iroquois Theatre shortly after a fire broke out on Dec. 30, 1903.
Joseph M. Patterson, left, and his cousin Col. Robert R. McCormick lead the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Tribune's printing plant in 1920. The printing press, built first, was attached to the east end of the Tower. The Tower opened in 1925. . In this photo, a victim is carried up the SS Eastland as the steamship lies on its side in the Chicago River after slowly rolling over and drowning 844 people July 24, 1915.
In 1924, he acquired one of the first experimental stations and changed its call letters from WDAP to WGN — for World’s Greatest Newspaper, the immodest slogan that the paper began to use on its cover in 1911. WGN would be the first station to broadcast the World Series, Indianapolis 500 and Kentucky Derby, and broke new ground by introducing microphones in the courtroom during the 1925 Scopes “monkey trial” in Tennessee.
The Illinois state militia was called in to quell the violence on the South Side of Chicago during the race riots in the summer of 1919.
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