The Chicago Tribune announced this week that it is moving out of Prudential Plaza. That current high-rise is located at 130 East Randolph Street in Chicago. Boasting incredible views of Lake Michigan and Millennium Park, it was an enviable location. The Tribune and its parent company, Tribune Publishing, will move to the Freedom Center printing facility along the Chicago River “north of downtown.”
Freedom Center houses the massive printing plant that prints the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers each day. Open House Chicago says the newspaper was originally printed in the Tribune Tower off Michigan Avenue until Freedom Center opened in 1981.
According to the Tribune newspaper, the downtown Chicago offices have been in a state of “near shutdown” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Employees were told to retrieve their personal belongings from Prudential Plaza by Feb. 28,” according to the Chicago Tribune.
They had already moved out of their long time home, Tribune Tower, after 93 years.
Tribune Publishing is currently weighing an acquisition offer from Alden Global Capital.
