Editing Tribune, Kansas (section)

==History==
Tribune was founded in 1886. The railroad depot was built in 1887, at which time Tribune was designated as the county seat.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n802 820]}}</ref> The city is named after the ''[[New York Tribune]]'', of which [[Horace Greeley]] of [[Chappaqua, New York|Chappaqua]], [[New York (state)|New York]] was the editor.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n305 198]}}</ref> Greeley encouraged western settlement with the motto  "[[Go West, young man]]".<ref>{{cite book | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7yhCAAAAIAAJ | title = Men and Events of Forty Years | accessdate = 2009-02-13 | author = Josiah Busnell Grinnell | publisher = [[D. Lothrop]] | location = Boston | year = 1891 | page = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7yhCAAAAIAAJ/page/n108 87]}}</ref>

Since January 1, 2009, the City of Tribune and Greeley County have operated as a [[Consolidated city–county|unified government]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greeleycounty.org/?page_id=947|title=Unified Greeley County, Kansas - Innovative Government  - Greeley County, Kansas|website=www.greeleycounty.org|accessdate=9 June 2018}}</ref> The resulting government consists of a five-member commission with two members elected by city residents, two by rural residents, and one at-large.<ref name=GCStar>[http://www.gctelegram.com/News/141965 Greeley County residents pass unification] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321220540/http://www.gctelegram.com/News/141965 |date=2009-03-21 }}, ''[[Garden City Telegram]]'', 2007-11-07.  Accessed 2007-11-08.</ref>  Similar to [[Wyandotte County, Kansas|Wyandotte County]], the only other consolidated city-county in the state, part of the county was not included: Horace decided against consolidation.<ref>[http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/351593.html TRIBUNE | City and county to unify], ''[[The Kansas City Star]]'', 2007-11-07.  Accessed 2007-11-08.</ref> Due to this, the city-county is the fifth [[list of United States cities by area|largest city in the US by area]] and the largest in the contiguous United States.