Chicago Tribune makes its final press run at Freedom Center, as printing plant gives way to casino

Bodo Stolczenberger, a plate room technician, records newsprint traveling through a press during the last Freedom Center press run of the Chicago Tribune on May 18, 2024. Stolczenberger posts videos to a Facebook group of current and former Chicago Tribune press operators.

P ress operators Nick Ricci, left, and Khalid Jordan laugh during the last Freedom Center press run of the Chicago Tribune, May 18, 2024. The facility printed its final edition of the Chicago Tribune before facing a demolition deadline and planned redevelopment into a casino. Tribune Publishing is shifting printing operations to the northwest suburban Daily Herald plant in Schaumburg.

Rick Ramirez, a night shift press operator, sits in his car after helping print the last Freedom Center press run of the Chicago Tribune in the early morning hours of May 19, 2024. Dollie Merritt, a night shift press operator, guides newsprint back onto a press after a web break on April 23, 2024, at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center.

A patch on the uniform shirt of Scott Seno, a night shift press operator, during a press run on Feb. 27, 2024, at the Freedom Center. Seno has worked there for 25 years. The control panel for a press in a quiet room on May 11, 2024, at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center. Jesse Martinez, a night shift operator, eats his lunch during a break around 11 p.m., after the bulk of a press run was complete on Feb. 27, 2024, at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center. Martinez has worked at the Center for 33 years.

Delivery driver Luis Romero, 23, arranges copies of the Chicago Tribune in the passenger seat of his car at the Hubbard Street Distribution Center ahead of doorstep delivery in the early morning hours of March 13, 2024. Romero starts his route around 3 a.m. and completes it around 6:30 a.m. Ricky Davison, the conductor for the Union Pacific 815, rides the train as it enters the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center on April 16, 2024, with the final delivery of newsprint before the facility is closed.

Crane operator John Cousins, inside the tiny booth near the top, picks up eight rolls of half ton newsprint in the newsprint warehouse on April 17, 2024, at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center. Newspapers lie on the floor of the pressroom on March 12, 2024, at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center. When the heavily-used presses at the Freedom Center geared up over the weekend to print the Sunday Chicago Tribune, it gave new meaning to the term final edition. After 43 years of spewing out countless millions of newspapers, the production run was the last for the Chicago Tribune at the massive plant along the Chicago River.

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