16 Facts About The Chicago Tribune

1. The Chicago Tribune moved in June 2018 to the Prudential Plaza office complex overlooking Millennium Park after Tribune Media sold Tribune Tower to developers.

2. On November 20, 2013, The Chicago Tribune laid off another 12 or so editorial staffers.

3. On March 15, 2012, The Chicago Tribune laid off 15 editorial staffers, including security guard Wendell Smothers.

4. The Chicago Tribune has since filed suit against the university administration under the Freedom of Information Act to acquire the names of students benefited by administrative clout and impropriety.

5. In September 2008, The Chicago Tribune considered hiring controversial sports columnist Jay Mariotti, shortly after his abrupt resignation from Tribune archrival Chicago Sun-Times.

6. In May 2004, The Chicago Tribune revealed that freelance reporter Mark Falanga was unable to verify some facts that he inserted in a lifestyle-related column that ran on April 18, 2004, about an expensive lunch at a Chicago restaurant—namely, that the restaurant charged $15 for a bottle of water and $35 for a pasta entree.

7. The Chicago Tribune won five Pulitzer prizes in the first decade of the 21st century.

8. On September 2, 1997, The Chicago Tribune promoted longtime City Hall reporter John Kass to take Royko's place as the paper's principal Page Two news columnist.

9. In 1997, The Chicago Tribune celebrated its 150th anniversary in part by tapping longtime reporter Stevenson Swanson to edit the book Chicago Days: 150 Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City.

10. The Chicago Tribune was replaced as film critic by Dave Kehr.

11. The Chicago Tribune scored a coup in 1984 when it hired popular columnist Mike Royko away from the rival Sun-Times.

12. The Chicago Tribune won 11 Pulitzer prizes during the 1980s and 1990s.

13. The Chicago Tribune worked for the short-lived Chicago Times magazine in the late 1980s.

14. The Chicago Tribune won its first post-McCormick Pulitzer in 1961, when Carey Orr won the award for editorial cartooning.

15. The Chicago Tribune won the battle, adding 250,000 readers to its ranks.

16. Under their leadership, The Chicago Tribune distanced itself from the Know Nothings, and became the main Chicago organ of the Republican Party.