Cantigny
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- For the town in France, see Cantigny, Somme.
Cantigny Park is a publicly-open estate in Wheaton, a town located in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located on Winfield Road, just south of Illinois Route 38. There are acres of formal and informal gardens, picnic groves and hiking paths, and two museums.
The Robert R. McCormick Museum is the former residence of Joseph Medill, one of the first editors of the Chicago Tribune, and later the home of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, its famous 20th century publisher. The residence is open to the public for tours as an historic house museum, overseen by the Cantigny Foundation, a division of the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation.
The First Division Museum is devoted to the First Division of the United States Army—also known as the Big Red One—in which McCormick served as a colonel during World War I. He named his estate after Cantigny, a small village in France which was the scene of fighting during World War I which involved the First Division.
After McCormick's death, the Trustees of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, acting on McCormick's wishes, invited noted German-American landscape architect Franz Lipp to design a series of landscapes and idea gardens around the residence for the general public's enjoyment. Colonel McCormick, alongside his first wife Amy, is also buried on the grounds at Cantigny. Lastly, there is also a public golf course at Cantigny Park.
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