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Colonel Tribune

@ColonelTribune

A more gentlemanly version of the @chicagotribune.

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Joined March 2008
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Ariel Cheung@arielfab25 Oct 2022
Almost 1,000 readers have voted for their favorite Holiday Cookie Contest recipes — and only a couple of votes separate the current frontrunners! Which cookies do you want us to taste test? Vote daily through Friday: bit.ly/3eGkj60
Vote for your favorite cookie in the Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest to decide which finalists we’ll...

Vote for your favorite cookie in the Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest to decide which finalists we’ll...

Among an absolutely delectable-sounding array of cookies, one winner awaits its crown — but it’ll be up to you to help us decide. The Chicago Tribune’s 36th annual Holiday Cookie Contest received 35...

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65 years ago today, Kroch’s & Brentano’s opened their bookstore at Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie, IL. From The Chicago Tribune October 17, 1957.
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Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV17 Sep 2022
Hey @ColonelTribune - Came across some of your old work…
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A newspaper is an institution developed by modern civilization to present the news of the day, to foster commerce and industry, to inform and lead public opinion, and to furnish that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide.
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John Byrne@_johnbyrne8 Aug 2022
Overheard today from Trib reader who appreciates the finer things: “For what it's worth... the fact that your paper runs a ‘Dave Matthews Bus dumped turd water on unsuspecting tourists’ anniversary article every year is probably enough for me to keep renewing my subscription.”
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There was "stunned silence initially. Then sort of this horrible realization as they began to smell themselves as to what happened," a visitor from Boston who was on the boat told the Tribune. trib.al/XredJaw
A Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped human waste on a tour boat in the Chicago River. Here’s our...

A Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped human waste on a tour boat in the Chicago River. Here’s our...

On August 8, 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus passing over the Chicago River unleashed a torrent of foul-smelling waste onto a tour boat and passengers below.

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Meet some of the people who made the Tribune at the Tower. Photos: trib.in/2JnHf51
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Hot off the presses, or more accurately, fresh from a box unearthed today from the Tribune’s archives: Boxing legend Jack Johnson in an undated photo in Chicago. #JackJohnson #boxing #boxinghistory #legend
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Chicago's Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson, right with baseball, and William Wrigley Jr., second from left, at opening for the #ChicagoCubs in 1927. #OpeningDay2018 #OpeningDay #FirstPitch
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Blair Kamin@BlairKamin6 Mar 2018
In The Colonel’s lair: plaster ceiling decoration celebrating his Yale secret society, Scroll and Key. – at Chicago, IL
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Iconic Wrigley Building expected to go up for sale, could fetch more than $200 million trib.in/2oLCFV0
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From the archives: On Feb. 21, 1995, Chicagoan Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon bit.ly/2opvhij
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How Col. McCormick set the stage for the Pentagon Papers court victory trib.in/2DqTB9r
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From the archives: On Jan. 16, 1967, McCormick Place was destroyed by a fire. One person, a security guard, died in the blaze. bit.ly/2mDOGLa Read more about the night McCormick Place burned here: trib.in/2mFlgfX
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The clock is ticking on our time in Tribune Tower. Critic @BlairKamin writes the move offers a lesson on the illusion of architectural permanence trib.in/2CyGSRZ
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Vandals shatter nearly 160-year-old stained glass window to break into and ransack Chicago's second oldest church trib.in/2BL94DS
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From the archives: On Dec. 11, 1921, gangster "Terrible Tommy" O'Connor escaped from the Cook County Jail days before he was to be executed. He was never caught. trib.in/2BV748o Read more about the escape here: trib.in/2jyI8QK
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50 years ago, Francis Brenton sailed a catamaran from #LakeMichigan to #Senegal in a catamaran he fashioned from a canoe and a pontoon. The harrowing journey ended up taking 106 days, far longer than the 45 days he predicted. See the journey: trib.in/2hTEwUL
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The Chicago Tribune will move to Prudential Plaza in early 2018 after 93 years in the paper’s namesake tower at 435 N. Michigan Avenue trib.in/2yTiSqU
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From the archives: On Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing all 29 aboard. It remains the largest ship to have sunk in the Great Lakes. trib.in/2hgchTI
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In 1914, an aviation pioneer brought his airship to Chicago and created one of the first aerial movies of the city. In 2017, we retraced his route: trib.in/2iiC3Dd
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