WGN (AM)
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WGN is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a talk radio format. WGN's studios are in the Chicago Loop, while its transmitter is in Elk Grove Village. WGN also features broadc
WGN's main studio in the Tribune Tower, c. 1930s -1940s. It could seat 600 people.
Officer Baldy and the WGN traffic copter in 1959.
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
WGN (AM)
…shares common ownership with Columbus, Ohio-licensed radio stations WBNS-AM and WBNS-FM. WGN was founded in 1922 as WDAP. In 1924 it was acquired by the Chicago Tribune, whose "World's Greatest Newspaper" slogan served as the basis for the WGN call sign, and later the call sign of a television superstation. WGN is a…
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.