Friday 9th September 2011
Billy gets his kicks out of Castle rock on Route 66
The Scotsman
Landmark buildings, a famous mile and some incredibly bad weather . . . Edinburgh and Chicago have always had a lot in common.
But in a new television programme, presented by Billy Connolly, it's revealed that a more concrete connection once blew in from one windy city to the other.
Embedded at foot level in Chicago's Tribune tower, home to the Chicago Herald Tribune newspaper, is a very solid part of the Scottish diaspora - a chunk of Edinburgh Castle rock.
Legend goes that the rock is there because Colonel Robert R McCormick, former owner of the Tribune, wanted bits of "historically important sites" incorporated into his new building in 1925.
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