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Cantigny is an estate in Wheaton, Illinois. It is located on Winfield Road, just south of Illinois Route 38.
There are acres of gardens, picnic groves and hiking paths, as well as two museums. One museum is the former home of Joseph Medill, one of the first editors of the Chicago Tribune, and also the former home of Robert R. McCormick, its famous 20th century publisher. The other museum is devoted to the First Division of the United States Army, McCormick was a colonel in the First Division during World War I. He named the estate after Cantigny, a small village in France which was the scene of horrible fighting during World War I which involved the First Division. There is also a public golf course on the Cantigny property.
Cantigny Park is a publicly-open estate in Wheaton, a town located in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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.
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.
The first sustained American offensive of the war, although a minor action in itself, the Battle of Cantigny was fought on 28 May 1918, the second day of the great German offensive comprising the Third Battle of the Aisne.
A regiment of the American 1st Division (some 4,000 troops), under Major-General Robert Lee Bullard, captured the village of Cantigny, held by the German Eighteenth Army commanded by von Hutier and the site of a German advance observation point, strongly fortified.
The American success at Cantigny was followed by attacks at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood in the first half of June.
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