Medill was further encouraged to come to Chicago by Dr. Charles H. Ray of Galena, Illinois, and editor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune.

In 1855, Medill sold his interest in the Leader to Cowles, and bought the Tribune in partnership with Dr. Ray and Cowles ' brother Alfred.

At that time Medill left day-to-day operations of the Tribune for political activities.

Under Medill, the Tribune became the leading Republican newspaper in Chicago.

In 1864, Medill left the Tribune editorship for political activity, which occupied him for the next ten years.

Their sons Joseph M. McCormick ( known as " Medill McCormick ") and Robert R. McCormick both served as heads of the Tribune.

Grandson Medill McCormick was publisher of the Tribune for four years, and later a U. S. Senator.

According to legend, it was at this time that Kenna got his nickname from Chicago Tribune publisher Joseph Medill, because of his small stature.

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.

Storey and Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, maintained a strong rivalry for some time.

After World War I, cartoonist Harold Gray joined the Chicago Tribune which, at that time, was being reworked by owner Joseph Medill Patterson into an important national journal.

The Medill School was founded in 1921 and named after Joseph Medill ( 1823 – 1899 ), owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune, which was then run by his grandsons Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson.

A native Ohioan who first acquired an interest in the Tribune in 1855, Medill gained full control of the newspaper in 1874 and ran it until his death in 1899.

Patterson and his cousin, Robert R. McCormick were co-publishers of the Chicago Tribune and grandsons of Tribune founder Joseph Medill.

The strip initially encountered resistance from Tribune editor Joseph Medill Patterson because its creator was a woman.

It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago Tribune, and is open to the public.

Her grandfather Joseph Medill was Mayor of Chicago and owned the Chicago Tribune, which later passed into the hands of her first cousin Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill's grandson.

After he came up with a strip idea in 1924 for Little Orphan Otto, the title was altered by Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill Patterson to Little Orphan Annie, launched August 5, 1924.

One major American newspaper that begun using reformed spellings was the Chicago Tribune, whose editor and owner, Joseph Medill, sat on the Council of the Spelling Reform Association.

Additions to the Evanston campus included: the Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly ; the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center ; and the McCormick Tribune Center, home to the Medill School of Journalism ; and the Arthur and Gladys Pancoe-Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Life Sciences Pavilion.

Joseph Medill Patterson ( January 6, 1879 – May 26, 1946 ) was an American journalist and publisher, grandson of publisher Joseph Medill, founder of the Chicago Tribune and a mayor of Chicago, Illinois.

Their children Joseph Medill Patterson and Cissy Patterson were also successful newspaper publishers.

Joseph Patterson and Col. McCormick, were both descendants of Medill.

The Medill Innocence Project began in 1999 as an effort by Medill faculty and students to reinvestigate murder convictions in Illinois and determine if people were wrongly convicted.

In 1871, after the Great Chicago Fire, Medill was elected mayor of Chicago as candidate of the temporary " Fireproof " party, serving for two years.

As mayor, Medill gained more power for the mayor's office, created Chicago's first public library, enforced blue laws and reformed the police and fire departments.

Medill was a strong Republican loyalist, who supported President Grant for re-election in 1872.

Medill Avenue, an east-west street on Chicago's north side, is named for him.

Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, which bears Joseph Medill's likeness.

U. S. Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, was the publisher's brother, and after his death, his widow ran against Thompson for the vacant seat.

Searching for a quick and accessible solution to their problem, William Medill the commissioner of Indian Affairs, proposed establishing “ colonies ” or “ reservations ” that would be exclusive to the natives, mimicking those which the natives had created for themselves in the east.

Medill served as mayor of Chicago for one term after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

When that venture — called Alliance News — failed, for a while the Sun-Times used the part-time help of Medill News Service, staffed by unpaid journalism students from the Medill School of Journalism.

While home in Denver from Wellesley, Albright worked as an intern for The Denver Post, where she met Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, the nephew of Alicia Patterson, owner of Newsday and wife of philanthropist Harry Frank Guggenheim.

Medill has produced journalists and political activists including thirty-eight Pulitzer Prize laureates, numerous national correspondents for major networks, and many well-known reporters and columnists.

Medill undergraduates participate in a journalism residency for one quarter in their junior or senior year, during which they intern in a professional newsroom.

The 2010 – 2011 cost of attendance for Medill graduate students was $ 85, 914.

Medill is known for graduates who " mix high-tech savvy with hard-nosed reporting skills ".

In a February 11, 2008 column written for the Daily Northwestern, Medill senior David Spett questioned the use of anonymous sources by Dean John Lavine in a letter Lavine wrote for Medill's alumni magazine.

** Anthony McKinney, considered for the Medill Innocence Project

Before and during the American Civil War, the new editors pushed an abolitionist agenda and strongly supported Abraham Lincoln, whom Medill helped secure the Presidency in 1860.