Tribune endorsed Bush.
The Trib EDITORIAL BOARD still has some vestiges of non-Liberalism. The Tribune national news reporters, their news articles, and their commentators are solidly (almost unanimously) left-wing. One must distinguish between the impact of a once-every-four-years endorsement, and the daily barrage of left-wing slanted news articles and commentary, to see the true impact of a newspaper.
We geezers also remember the Trib endorsing Carter over Reagan in 1980.
Although that wasn't much of a surprise. The Trib endorsed RINO John Anderson over Reagan in the primary the previous March.