Short answers, pulled from the story.
The San Francisco Chronicle was founded on the 16th of January 1865 by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The publication began as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle with a borrowed twenty-dollar gold piece.
The building at 690 Market Street was San Francisco's first skyscraper and was completed in 1889. It was commissioned from the architectural firm Burnham and Root and is now known as the Old Chronicle Building or the DeYoung Building.
Paul Avery, a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, pursued the trail of the self-named Zodiac Killer during the late 1960s. The paper received a letter mailed on the 31st of July 1969 containing a cipher that the Chronicle eventually solved.
The San Francisco Chronicle launched the SFGate website on the 3rd of November 1994. It was the first large market newspaper website in the world and was co-founded by Allen Weiner and John Coate.
The de Young family sold the San Francisco Chronicle to Hearst Communications, Inc. on the 27th of July 2000 for $660 million. This sale transferred ownership from the Chronicle Publishing Company to the Hearst Corporation.
The sports section is edited by Christina Kahrl and called Sporting Green as it is printed on green-tinted pages. The Sunday arts and entertainment insert section is called Datebook and is printed on pink-tinted paper.