The Tribune Company was founded on June 10, 1847 when the eponymous "Chicago Daily Tribune" published its first edition in a one-room plant located at LaSalle and Lake Streets in downtown Chicago. The original press run consisted of 400 copies printed on a hand press. The "Tribune" constructed its first building, a four-story structure at Dearborn and Madison Streets, in 1869. The building was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of October 1871, along with most of the city. The "Tribune" resumed printing two days later with an editorial declaring "Chicago Shall Rise Again." Joseph Medill, a native Ohioan who acquired an interest in the "Tribune" in 1855, gained full control of the newspaper in 1874 and ran it until his death in 1899.