Why is there a museum about the division located in the suburbs outside Chicago?
A. Col. Robert R. McCormick, the late editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, owned this estate. His service with the Fighting First during WWI had so impressed him that he renamed his estate Cantigny in honor of the Division’s first battle in France. When Col. McCormick passed away, his will set up a trust to open and maintain his estate as a public park. The trustees honored the Colonel’s love of the division by establishing a First Division Museum on the estate.
