Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", remains the leading daily newspaper of the Midwestern United States.

Notable stories

One of the great scoops in Tribune history came when it obtained the text of the Treaty of Versailles in June of 1919. Another was its revelation of U.S. war plans on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack.

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Treaty of Versailles - 1919 - Pearl Harbor

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The paper is also well known for a mistake it made during the 1948 presidential election. At that time, much of its composing room staff was on strike, and early returns led the paper to believe that the Republican candidate Thomas Dewey would win. An early edition of the next day's paper carried the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN", turning the paper into a collector's item when it turned out that Harry S. Truman won and proudly brandished it in a famous photo.

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1948 presidential election - Thomas Dewey - Harry S. Truman

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Although under Col. McCormick the Tribune for years refused to participate in the Pulitzer Prize competition, it has won 24 of the awards over the years, including many for editorial writing.

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Pulitzer Prize - Editorial writing

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