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Cantigny (/ k æ n ˈ t iː n i / kan-TEE-nee) is a 500-acre (200 ha) park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles (48 km) west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson, Colonel Robert R. McCormick , publishers of the Chicago Tribune .
The online video, Conversations across Generations: The Cantigny First Division Oral History Project Summer 2008, summarizes the project. The Cantigny First Division Oral Histories project was funded by a grant from the Chicago-based McCormick Foundation with administrative support from the staff of the First Division Museum at Cantigny.
1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) estate with two museums: Robert R. McCormick Museum, a 1930s historic mansion with biographical exhibits, and the First Division Museum at Cantigny: Carl Sandburg State Historic Site: Galesburg: Knox: Western: Biographical: Boyhood home and museum about poet Carl Sandburg: Carnegie Museum: Olney: Richland: Southern: Local ...
The Battle of Cantigny, fought May 28, 1918, [4] was the first major American battle and offensive of World War I. [5] The U.S. 1st Division , the most experienced of the five American divisions then in France and in reserve for the French Army near the village of Cantigny , was selected for the attack.
His estate, Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, is now a museum. (Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946), Illinois State Representative in 1903, was first cousin of J. Medill McCormick and Robert Rutherford McCormick through the Medill family.)
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Cantigny (French pronunciation:; Picard: Cantegny) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. History. During World ...
M1902 field gun at the First Division Museum tank park at Cantigny Park. A 3-inch M1902 field gun exhibited at the Texas Military Forces Museum, Austin, Texas. A 3-inch M1902 field gun exhibited at the American Legion Hall Post 41, Eustis, Florida. One M1904, used by Southern Utah University Army ROTC, Cedar City, Utah. It is still in working ...