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Originally Posted by sentinel
the location of the UN instead of NYC
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Keep in mind that Chicago offered Northerly Island as the home of the UN. Surprisingly, they decided
not to spend their winters out in Lake Michigan downwind of the stockyards.
Leaving aside the problem of travel time to Chicago in a pre-jetliner era, Charlene Mires writes in
Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations that the site selection committee summarily ruled out all Midwestern locations because of the famous isolationism of the region's newspapers. Obviously, Col. McCormick's
Tribune was leader of the pack, having been a loud, steadfast, and influential opponent of US involvement in World War II.
