Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper published by Tribune Publishing in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Founded in 1847 as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it is still the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation of any American newspaper in 2017.

Under Joseph Medill's leadership in the 1850s, the Chicago Tribune became closely associated with Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the twentieth century, it gained a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the New York Daily News and the Washington Times-Herald. In the 1960s, its corporate parent company, Tribune Company, expanded into new markets. For the first time in its nearly 150-year history, its editorial page endorsed a Democrat, Illinoisan Barack Obama, for President of the United States in 2008.

Originally published exclusively as a broadsheet, the Tribune announced on January 13, 2009, that it would continue to publish as a broadsheet for home delivery but would publish in tabloid format for newsstand, news box, and commuter station sales. This change, however, was unpopular with readers, and the Tribune discontinued the tabloid edition in August 2011, returning to its traditional broadsheet format across all distribution channels.

Founded: June 10, 1847
Headquarters: Freedom Center (Chicago), US
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