September 7, 1934 – At a time when the city and its
occupants swelter in the summer heat with little they can do about it, The Chicago Daily Tribune prints a glowing
article that touts its super-swell air conditioning system, installed during
the cold weather months, a system that has already provided 1,358 “air cooled
hours” for employees and tenants of Tribune Tower. Holmes Onderdonk, the manager of the
building, says, “The whole idea was to make working conditions better for
employees and tenants . . . When the air cooling system was first contemplated
there was an opinion that a building already erected couldn’t be air
conditioned. The working of this system
shows it can be done. The refrigeration
machinery will be built into new buildings in the future, but it was an
accomplishment to install the system here.”
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