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Owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper Born in Chicago Robert Sanderson McCormick: Jul 26, 1849: Apr 16, 1919: United States ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Imperial Russia, and France: Lived in Chicago Ruth Hanna McCormick: Mar 27, 1880: Dec 31, 1944: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's at-large district
November 29, 1953 (age 70) Savannah, Georgia, U.S. Education. Pomona College (BA) Mary Theresa Schmich (/ ʃmiːk / SHMEEK; [1] born November 29, 1953) is an American journalist. She was a columnist for the Chicago Tribune from 1992 to 2021, [2][3] winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Her columns were syndicated nationally by Tribune Content ...
Genevieve Forbes was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 21, 1894, the daughter of Frank G. Forbes and Carolyn D. (Gee) Forbes.[1] She attended Lakeview High School, then earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1916 and a master's degree in English from the University of Chicago in 1917. At Northwestern, she was the first ...
Mike Royko. Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 30-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A humorist who focused on life in Chicago, he was the winner of the 1972 ...
Robert Bernard Greene Jr. (born March 10, 1947) is an American journalist and author. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he was a columnist. Greene has written books on subjects including Michael Jordan, Alice Cooper, and U.S. presidents. His book Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller.
Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American lawyer, businessman and anti-war activist.. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distinguished U.S. Army officer in World War I, and eventually owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 54th [1] mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011. Daley was elected mayor in 1989 and was reelected five times until declining to run for a seventh term. At 22 years, his was the longest tenure in Chicago mayoral history, surpassing the 21-year ...
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois.Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" [2] [3] (the slogan from which its once integrated WGN radio and television received their call letters), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region.