Louise A. Hutchinson (1926-2017) was born in Chicago, Illinois, where she lived in the Irving Park neighborhood until 1966.
Hutchinson graduated from Schurz High School and attended Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois and later received a
bachelor's from the University of Iowa. After earning her degree, Hutchinson worked for WHBF radio station, worked as a reporter
for the Northwest Times, a weekly newspaper on Chicago's Northwest Side, before joining the Chicago Tribune. At the beginning
of Hutchinson's time at the Tribune, she covered a variety of topics, including a 1957 concert by Elvis Presley, local businesses,
and a series of articles on the Brookfield Zoo. In November 1963, Hutchinson was moved to Washington, to cover the aftermath
of John F. Kennedy's assassination, with particular emphasis on Jacqueline Kennedy. Hutchinson officially joined the Tribune's
Washington bureau in 1966, where she covered the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, including the latter's
1972 trip to the Soviet Union. Other notable articles include Hutchinson's 1967 ride to the bottom of the ocean in the Navy's
"Alvin" submarine and her 1971 trip to the South Pole, where she become the first woman to stay there overnight. After leaving
the Tribune in 1973, Hutchinson worked as he public information office for the Department of Justice's civil rights division.
From 1985 until 1991, Hutchinson worked as the director of public information for the National Association of Children's Hospitals
in Alexandria, Virginia. Hutchinson moved to Williamsburg in 1993, where she lived until her death in 2017.
Papers, 1953-2017, of Louise A. Hutchinson are primarily comprised of newspaper clippings of her work from the Chicago Tribune.
The newspaper clippings span the entire length of her time working at the Tribune, from 1953-1973, and include articles written
by Hutchinson about animals, Alvin the Submarine, Hutchinson's trip to the Antarctic, miscellaneous features and local interest
articles from Washington, D.C. and Chicago, school desegregation, and various politicians, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon
B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and their families. Collection also includes correspondence, and several photograph albums and
scrapbooks which detail various aspects of her time as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Also included in this collection
is a 1994 oral history of Hutchinson, conducted by Chicago Tribune reporter Robert Wiedrich, as well as miscellaneous papers
and photographs.
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