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The radio, one of the niftiest inventions of the 20th century, has been informing, entertaining, outraging and boring millions of people for more than 100 years. It was called “magic in a box” by Col Robert R. McCormick, the owner of the Chicago Tribune who gave the world the venerable WGN-AM 720. I have to wonder what McCormick might have called radio had he lived long enough to hear the ...
Good morning, Chicago. It’s easy to fall back into a life surrounded by gangs, drugs and violence in the streets of Chicago after being released from prison, Juan Romero wrote in an essay from the four walls of his cell as he tried to understand how he landed there and how he could find his way out. “It’s the only way of life we know,” said Romero, 36, now a free man. Last week, a little over ...
In his new book, media writer and former WLUP employee Rick Kaempfer drafts a riveting oral history of the iconic Chicago rock station.