CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHARITIES ANNOUNCES GRANTS OF $900,000 TO CHICAGOLAND AGENCIES FIGHTING HOMELESSNESS

CHICAGO, September 1 , 2006–Chicago Tribune Charities, a McCormick Tribune Foundation Fund, announced that 37 agencies committed to reducing homelessness in the Chicago metropolitan area will receive grants totaling $900,000. Chicago Tribune readers’ gifts through the newspaper’s annual Holiday Giving campaign are a key source of funding for these grants. Grants are approved by the McCormick Tribune Foundation board of directors based on recommendations from foundation staff and a Chicago Tribune Charities advisory committee, which consists of Chicago Tribune employees.

Chicago Tribune Charities’ housing initiative falls within its Child and Family Development program area. Giving for housing is focused in five areas: prevention, affordable housing, advocacy, transitional shelter and emergency shelter.

“We’re especially committed to supporting organizations that are developing long-term solutions for the problem of homelessness, with the hope of continually reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in Chicagoland,” said Janet Dobbs, Chicago Tribune director of development and co-chair of the Chicago Tribune Charities advisory committee.

The following organizations committed to prevention of homelessness received grants totaling $285,000:

• Cathedral Shelter of Chicago
• Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Chicago
• Emergency Fund
• Heartland Human Care Services
• Illinois Migrant Council
• Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing
• Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago
• Metropolitan Tenants Organization
• Spanish Coalition for Housing
• Together We Cope

The following organizations committed to providing affordable housing received grants totaling $275,000:

• AIDS Foundation
• AIDSCARE
• Beacon Therapeutic School, Inc.
• Chicago House and Social Service Agency
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
• Heartland Health Outreach
• Humboldt Park Social Services
• Interfaith Council for the Homeless
• Interfaith Housing Development Corporation of Chicago
• Teen Living Programs, Inc.
• Thresholds

The following organizations committed to advocacy received grants totaling $170,000:

• Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
• Chicago Rehabilitation Network
• Partnership to End Homelessness
• Supportive Housing Providers Association

The following organizations providing transitional shelter received grants totaling $125,000:

• Bridge Communities
• Casa Central
• Cathedral Shelter
• Lake County Haven
• Outreach Community Ministries, Inc.
• Shelter, Inc.
• St. Leonard’s Ministries
• Wings Program, Inc.

The following organizations providing emergency shelter received grants totaling $45,000:

• Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Chicago
• Harbour, Inc.
• PADS Crisis Services, Inc.
• South Suburban PADS

“The McCormick Tribune Foundation’s communities program is a unique effort that stimulates local philanthropy and improves community life across the country,” said David L. Grange, president and chief executive officer of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. “In 2005, on the strength of people’s generosity and the role of each partner in their community, including Chicago Tribune Charities, the foundation was able to make 1600 grants, totaling more than $60 million.”

About Chicago Tribune Charities
Chicago Tribune Charities, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, annually raises millions of dollars from generous Tribune readers through the Chicago Tribune Holiday Giving campaign. These gifts, plus matching funds from McCormick Tribune Foundation, provide funding for grants to organizations that help alleviate hunger, promote reading and literacy, and strengthen families. Chicago Tribune and McCormick Tribune Foundation cover all administrative and promotional expenses, so that every cent of every dollar donated goes to work in supporting non-profit organizations, and 100 percent of the funds raised and matched stay in the Chicagoland area.

Because Chicago Tribune Charities represents a partnership between the McCormick Tribune Foundation and Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Tribune Charities mission is in keeping with both the mission of the Foundation’s Communities Program, to stimulate local philanthropy and improve community life, and the company’s mission, which is to help people throughout Chicagoland engage their world and to strive every day to make a difference for the communities the company serves that goes well beyond words. In 2005 alone, 170 such grants totaling more than $6.3 million were distributed throughout Chicagoland, as 100 percent of the funds raised and matched stay in the Chicago metropolitan area. For more information about Chicago Tribune Charities, please visit: chicagotribune.com/about/custom/community.

About the McCormick Tribune Foundation
The McCormick Tribune Foundation is one of the nation’s largest charitable organizations and encompasses:

• Five grantmaking programs– citizenship, communities, education, journalism and special initiatives
• Cantigny Park & Golf
• Three world-class museums: Cantigny First Division Museum, the Robert R. McCormick Museum and the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum

A focus on children, communities and country unites the foundation and its many parts and keep us true to our mission of advancing the ideals of a free and democratic society. The foundation is an independent non-profit, separate from Tribune Co., with substantial holdings in Tribune Co. For more information about the foundation and its efforts, please visit www.McCormickTribune.org.

The McCormick Tribune Foundation’s communities program is a unique effort that stimulates local philanthropy and improves community life across the country. To encourage donations, the foundation matches all contributions from its general funds at the rate of 50 cents on the dollar, up to pre-determined limits, and then makes grants directly to nonprofits in the communities from which the donations were made. The foundation and the partners cover all campaign administrative costs, so 100 percent of the public’s generosity, plus the match earned, goes directly to agencies providing critical services in each community.