Cantigny Park
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Cantigny is a 500-acre park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago Tribune. O
Cantigny, with its non-contiguous Family Links Golf Course in the bottom right.
Ornamental onions and Russian sage flowers in late July along the Hawthorn Path. The Fountain Garden and Visitor Center are in the distance.
Permanent and temporary exhibits await visitors inside the First Division Museum at Cantigny.
Known for its annual flower displays, Cantigny grows purpleleaf cabbage, chrysanthemums and variegated sedge in this fall garden bed.
Joseph Medill
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Joseph Medill was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after t
Cantigny Park
…Cantigny ( 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. Open to the public from February through December, Cantigny comprises…
Joseph Medill
Medill taught at this school in Navarre, Ohio, in the 1840s.
Joseph Medill daguerreotype, circa 1852
Medill's grave at Graceland Cemetery