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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.
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 ...
Cantigny, the former estate of Chicago Tribune owner Robert R. McCormick, contains extensive formal and natural gardens and two museums, one relating to the Chicago Tribune, and the other devoted to the First Division of the United States Army, as Robert McCormick was a colonel in the First Division during World War I. Adjacent to the park to ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places entries in Columbus, Ohio, United States.The National Register is a federal register for buildings, structures, and sites of historic significance.
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.
Burial memorial for Robert R. McCormick at Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, dedicated 1957 [17] 1st Infantry Division museum at Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois , dedicated 1960 [ 18 ] References
Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr., founder of the McCormick business dynasty. Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia. [1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (née Carruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrants born in ...
Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American publisher, lawyer, and businessman.. 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.