Cantigny Park continues its Headlines from History series with “A Century of Headlines: Exploring the Tribune by the Decade,” a program by Jeffrey Anderson, one of Cantigny’s resident historians.
The free presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, may be attended in person at the Cantigny Park Visitors Center (parking $5) and online via Zoom. Those needing a Zoom link must register in advance at Cantigny.org.
The Chicago Tribune is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year. Founded in 1847, The Tribune is Chicago’s oldest newspaper, and one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the United States. Most of the Tribune’s first 100 years were under the leadership of Joseph Medill, who once lived at Cantigny, and his family, most notably his grandson, Robert R. McCormick.
Anderson will look back at the most famous headlines through the Tribune’s first century, revealing along the way that the newspaper not only reported on historical events it played a significant role in them, too.
Jeffrey Anderson spent 15 years as the Robert R. McCormick Museum’s interpretation manager before taking on the role of exhibition coordinator and Assistant Curator of the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park. A lead researcher on museum exhibits and public programs, Anderson holds a master’s degree in U.S. history from Roosevelt University and is an adjunct history professor at the College of DuPage.
—Cantigny Park