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Tribune Tower

 * 36 stories, the "Colonel's" office is on the 24th floor
 * 12 story annex added in 1948
 * John Mead Howells and Raymond M. Hood architects
 * Gothic buttresses
 * souvenir fragments
 * bronze plates reproducing notable front pages
 * 150 Ontario Street, turned into a 'Key club" around 1940.
 * Robert R. McCormick, The Colonel, died in 1955. He was the FIFTH Robert McCormick in his family's American history.
 * Grandfather was Joseph Medill
 * Great-Uncle was Cyrus McCormick
 * Owned the Washington-Times Herald in 1951

Five Roberts

 * 1) - I, fought in the American Revolution, moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, married Polly, their eldest was named Robert (II).
 * 2) - II, (1780-1846)  married Mary Ann Hall. Tried to build a mechanical reaper. Had a son named Robert (III). Owned 9 slaves.
 * 3) - III, died of the "fluX', but his brother, Cyrus, made the reaper work and moved to Chicago in 1847.
 * 4) - IV, Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919), U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary 1901-1902, U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary 1902, U.S. Ambassador to Russia 1902-1905, U.S. Ambassador to France 1905-1907.
 * 5) - V, Robert Rutherford "Bertie" McCormick (1880–1955), famous publisher of the Chicago Tribune and patriarch of Chicago. The Colonel



Chgo Tribune

 * Born in a loft in 1847
 * Joseph Medill, combative editor
 * loathed Cyrus McC

The reaper
Saved the Union by freeing northern farmboys from the fields in order to fight for the Union side in the Confederate War.

McCormick family tree from the template
This is used for articles about the McCormick family of the Chicago area.