Famed journalist owned this house
by BlockShopper Historian published Dec. 07, 2009
Walter Trohan was the Washington bureau chief and a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in 1961 when he owned this house. He was considered the last of the legendary metropolitan newspaper Washington bureau chiefs whose bylines made them famous. As a young reporter in 1929 he was first on the scene of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. Trohan passed away in 2003 at the age of 100.
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