Robert R. McCormick
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Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick was an American publisher, lawyer, and businessman. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Chicago alderman, distingui
McCormick in 1925
Tribune Tower
McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum was funded by the foundation
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
Robert R. McCormick
…and by September 5, 1918, was promoted to a full colonel in the field artillery. He took part in the capture of Cantigny (hence his later naming his farm estate near Wheaton, Illinois), and in the battles of Soissons, Saint-Mihiel, and the second phase of the Argonne. McCormick served in the 1st Battalion, 5th…
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.