McCormick Foundation

McCormick Foundation is a Chicago-based nonprofit charitable trust established in 1955, following the death of "Colonel" Robert R. McCormick of the McCormick family. As of 2010^[update] it had more than US$1 billion in assets.

In 1911, McCormick became the editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, a position he held until his death in 1955. McCormick's will founded a charitable trust to promote his beliefs regarding the first amendment, citizenship, community service, education and journalism.

In May 2008, the foundation’s Board of Directors changed its name from McCormick Tribune Foundation to the McCormick Foundation to clarify that the Foundation no longer held an ownership position in the Tribune Company. In May 2009, the foundation appointed Chicago native, lawyer and former CEO of the Los Angeles Times, David Hiller as its president and CEO. Hiller succeeded David L. Grange, a retired United States Army Major General, who was the foundation’s president from 2005–2009.

McCormick left his grandafather Joseph Medill's estate, that he called Cantigny, as a public park. The park is located in Wheaton, Illinois.

From April 2006 to March 2009 the foundation funded the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum which focused on first amendment rights: freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition. In January 2009, the foundation announced it was turning the McCormick Freedom Museum mobile. The mobile museum made its debut in Chicago’s Pioneer Court on May 27, 2010.

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