Comments on: Tribune Tower

By: WGN-TV Is Chicago’s Very Own

WGN-TV Is Chicago’s Very Own — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:31:56 +0000

[...] is home to WGN Television and WGN America, and housed WGN Radio (720 AM) before it moved to the Tribune Tower. While best known for its coverage of the Chicago Cubs, WGN-TV has televised games from almost all [...]

By: Visit Springer, Wilkos, and Mathis at NBC Tower

Visit Springer, Wilkos, and Mathis at NBC Tower — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:03:22 +0000

[...] along with limestone piers, recessed tinted glass, and flying buttresses (much like the nearby Tribune Tower). The skyscraper is finished off with a 130-foot (40 m) [...]

By: Robert Allerton Park

Robert Allerton Park — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:43:45 +0000

[...] on these grounds with his lifelong “friend,” John Gregg. Allerton had been described by the Chicago Tribune as the city’s “most eligible bachelor,” and he never married. The two men left Chicago in the [...]

By: Bohemian National Cemetery

Bohemian National Cemetery — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:05:43 +0000

[...] Founded in 1877, the 125-acre (505857-sq-m) graveyard has more than 117,000 people buried there and was recently named a landmark. The structures within, including the entrance arch, chapel, and Columbarium, are beautiful pieces of architectural work. However, it’s the funerary art that gets most of the attention here, and rightfully so. There are marble statues scattered throughout the grounds, many honoring the soldiers of World War I and the Spanish-American War. The mausoleum of former Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak (who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt) is also located here, as well as the mausoleum of the Kolar family, landlords to the infamous Mrs. O’Leary. [...]

By: Freedom Center

Freedom Center — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:52:14 +0000

[...] readers daily and 2.7 million on Sunday. (Until 1982, the paper was printed in the east wing of the Tribune Tower.) The Chicago Tribune company, along with other media businesses it operates, reaches approximately [...]

By: Wrigley Building

Wrigley Building — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:36:03 +0000

[...] sadly, is not open to the public. The Wrigley Building (which now sits on the same block as the Tribune Tower) was also Chicago’s very first air-conditioned office building. Finally, each of the terra cotta [...]

By: Weekend Festivals

Weekend Festivals — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:46:04 +0000

[...] to a $25,000 sculpture! The show goes from Friday through Sunday in the Pioneer Court next to the Tribune Tower and includes sculptures, jewelry, ceramics, paintings, and pottery from over 200 award-winning [...]

By: George Washington-Robert Morris-Hyam Salomon Memorial

George Washington-Robert Morris-Hyam Salomon Memorial — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:24:17 +0000

[...] the corner of Wabash Avenue and Wacker Drive, just a couple blocks southwest of the Tribune Tower, stands a testament to the fact that people of different backgrounds had to come together to help [...]

By: Weekend Festivals

Weekend Festivals — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:44:04 +0000

[...] event in Chicago history: the first, the Fort Dearborn Massacre of 1812; the second, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871; the third, the World’s Fair in 1893; and the fourth, the Century of Progress [...]