The Tribune's 175th anniversary: A look back on how the Tribune covered some of the biggest stories in its history.
, which protests a 600 percent increase in tavern license fees and Sunday closings. It is considered Chicago’s first civil disturbance.and serves in that position until 1856. He would later introduce the Department motto: “At danger’s call, we’ll promptly fly; and bravely do or bravely die.”
Joseph Medill in 1855, when he left Cleveland and formed a partnership to buy the struggling Tribune. Medill, who was born in St. John, New Brunswick, and grew up in rural Ohio, would spend the rest of his life building the foundations of one of America's major newspapers.The Chicago Daily Tribune was transformed by the arrival in 1855 of editor and co-owner, who turned the paper into one of the leading voices of the new Republican Party.