Imagine yourself walking the muddy streets of Chicago in June of 1847. If you had 3 cents in your pocket to spare you might have spent it to buy the first edition of a new newspaper named the Chicago Daily Tribune.
A view of Michigan Avenue looking south from Jackson Boulevard in undated photo, circa the late 1800s. The Leland Hotel, at right corner, later became the Stratford Hotel.
Operating from offices over a post office on a stretch of Clark Street known as “Newspaper Row,” the paper’s increasingly large staff had some of the most important stories of the century to cover, and plenty of rivals covering them. The paper had more than 25 correspondents in the field and in Washington to report on the war. Lloyd Wendt, in “Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper,” captured the routine of one correspondent: “ left his hotel, taking with him a telescope, notepaper, pencils and a box lunch. He previously had checked the telegraph station at Fairfax Court House, as any good war correspondent should, since a news story possessed value only if transmitted promptly to the newspaper.
In editorials, the newspaper reflected Medill’s common man philosophy, such as his opposition to the concentration of wealth in a few hands, which he considered a threat to democracy. His editorial pages also regularly campaigned for such projects as the World’s Columbian Exposition, and when that arrived on the South Side in 1893, the newspaper covered it with exuberance.
Even though the city, in the wake of the fair, was crippled by a deep depression that saw thousands starve to death and thousands more made jobless, city leaders and aesthetic-minded citizens worked to emulate what they considered the fair’s beauty by improving the look of what was then a murky, ugly city to the north. Parks and playgrounds sprouted.
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