The Tribune Tower rises above the streets of downtown Chicago in a majestic snarl of Gothic spires and flying buttresses that were designed to exude power and prestige. When plans for the building were announced in 1922, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the longtime owner of the Chicago Tribune, said he wanted to erect “the world’s most beautiful office building” for his beloved newspaper. The best architects of the era were invited to submit designs; lofty quotes about the Fourth Estate were selected to adorn the lobby. Prior to the building’s completion, McCormick directed his foreign correspondents to collect “fragments” of various historical sites—a brick from the Great Wall of China, an emblem from St. Peter’s Basilica—and send them back to be embedded in the tower’s facade. The final product, completed in 1925, was an architectural spectacle unlike anything the city had seen before—“romance in stone and steel,” as one writer described it. A century later, the Tribune Tower has retained its grandeur. It has not, however, retained the Chicago Tribune.
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I am not a Republican apologist, but it is the Democratic-leaning media that cannot be trusted. They hid Joe Biden in the basement prior to the election, failing to address his many deficiencies before the voters, burying the Hunter and Biden family illegal indiscretions, but viciously attacking Trump. You need to read the Mollie Hemingway boo “Rigged”!
Michael — I do not allow people to post misinformation or disinformation on SR, and you attempt to do this regularly. What you have posted is not factually accurate, it is MAGAt crap, and if you do it again I will delete your post.
Thank you, Stephan.