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When McCormick assumed the position of co-editor ( with his cousin Joseph Medill Patterson ) in 1910, the Tribune was the third-best-selling paper among Chicago's eight dailies, with a circulation of only 188, 000.

The young cousins added features such as advice columns and homegrown comic strips like Little Orphan Annie and Moon Mullins, then turned to " crusades ", with their first success coming with the ouster of the Republican political boss of Illinois, Sen. William Lorimer.

At the same time, the Tribune competed with the Hearst paper, the Chicago Examiner, in a circulation war.

By 1914, the cousins succeeded in forcing out Managing Editor William Keeley.

By 1918, the Examiner was forced to merge with the Chicago Herald.