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The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", [2] [3] a slogan from which its once integrated WGN radio and WGN television received their call letters.
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.
It also made Chicago an international center for the study of brass instrument performance." Regular concert-goers knew him not only by his golden sound, but also by sight; as long-time Chicago Tribune critic John von Rhein wrote in his farewell piece, "He was the man whose face would turn radish-red when he was scaling the trumpet stratosphere ...
Joseph Kromelis (1947 – December 11, 2022) known as 'Walking Man', 'Walking Dude' [1] [2] or Walking Yanni [3] was a Chicago-area homeless man and street vendor known for his physical appearance and for wandering about the city.
On July 8, 1991, Pope John Paul II appointed Goedert as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago and titular bishop of Tamazeni. [2] He was consecrated by then Archbishop Joseph Bernardin on August 29, 1991. [2] In 1998, Goedert was one of 75 U.S. Catholic bishops to condemn the U.S. policy on strategic nuclear weapons. [3]
Mike Downey (August 9, 1951 – June 12, 2024) was an American newspaper columnist. He was known for his columns in the Chicago area, such as writing pieces for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News.
George Bliss (July 21, 1918 – September 11, 1978) was an American journalist. [1] He won a 1962 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for the Chicago Tribune and was associated with two others:
Joseph D. Mattsson-Boze (February 7, 1905 – January 22, 1989) was a Swedish-American minister and pastor of Chicago's Philadelphia Church from 1933 to 1958, with the exception of 1939–1941 when he pastored the Rock Church in New York.