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WGN-TV is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, that serves as the local outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by the network's parent company, Nexstar Media Group, sharing c
Garfield Goose and Friends was one of the earliest television programs WGN-TV broadcast in color.
News van outside the Dirksen Federal Building in June 2018.
Bozo's Circus 1968
A TV schedule showing programming from 4 to 10 p.m., Thursday, September 16, 1954, for four TV stations in Chicago. WGN is the column on the left.
Chicago Tribune
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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", a slogan from which its
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…outside the Chicago Loop. Its transmitter is located atop Willis Tower in the Loop. The station began broadcasting in 1948, when it was owned by the Chicago Tribune newspaper. WGN-TV became one of the earliest superstations; on November 9, 1978, it became the second U.S. television station to be made available via…
An 1870 advertisement for Chicago Tribune subscriptions
The lead editorial in the Chicago Tribune following the Great Chicago Fire
Truman was widely expected to lose the 1948 election, and the Chicago Tribune ran the incorrect headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman" in its early edition the day after the election.
Tribune Tower, the newspaper's headquarters, opened in Chicago in 1925.