On Sept. 19, 1982, the presses stopped running in the bowels of the Tribune Tower, where the newspaper had been printed since Dec. 12, 1920.
The most notorious heat wave in Chicago was the deadly July 1995 stretch that killed more than 700 area residents. On July 13, 1995, Chicago's high temperature for the day reached 104 degrees. A 101-year-old woman gets help after being overcome by the heat Aug. 13, 1995, after an electrical fire knocked out power in her apartment building.
Royko’s arrival, said then-Tribune editor Jim Squires, “means that the best Chicago columnist and the best Chicago newspaper have finally gotten together. It is about time.” And two years later Royko was joined by another major star. There were still people writing letters, of course, but many were being sent electronically as the world and this newspaper moved into the digital age. Early on, typewriters were replaced by computers in newsrooms and in 1991 the newspaper company bought a 9% share of America Online. It would offer full text of the Tribune on AOL in 1993, and in 1995 the newspaper offered its first breaking news coverage on the web after a suburban Fox River Grove train and school bus crash.
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