Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf’s most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially ...
Joe Colborn, known to generations of Chicago radio listeners as Joe “JoBo” Bohannon, has passed away. Officers responded to ...
TV’s Larry Potash to talk about his hosting duties at the Museum of Broadcast Communications (440 W. Randolph St., Chicago) ...
Olympic gold-medalist Rowdy Gaines has swimming tips if you’re an older swimmer, or returning to the pool after years away. Gaines won three Olympic gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and is ...
Last Saturday marked 38 years since WGN’s tv signals were hijacked in the “Max Headroom” incident. On November 22nd, 1987 ...
Astrology. Aliens. Ghosts. In this piece for Backstory, Larry Potash introduces us to Jim Underdown, the executive director of the Center for Inquiry West (Los Angeles), and a noted skeptic about just ...
In the late 1980s, viewers across Chicago saw something they weren’t expecting. Their screens cut to static, then to a figure ...
In this piece for Backstory, Larry Potash profiles a family tradition that has lasted more than a century. Two elegant dresses, one of them a wedding gown, passed down through generations of one ...
There are currently at least 10,000 cults in the United States. Cults have been part of life here going back four centuries. Why is America such a breeding ground for these groups? Larry Potash goes ...
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WGN) — With WGN and Nexstar’s NewsNation sources confirming the Chicago departure of Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and his team of agents, devastation remains for local ...
CHICAGO (WGN) — A fire broke out in a three-flat apartment building in Roseland Wednesday morning, prompting neighbors to attempt the rescue of a senior woman trapped inside. In the area of 107th & ...
In the inaugural installment of ‘Paul Watches Old TV Shows for the First Time,’ Mike Toomey introduces Paul Konrad to ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show.’ Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you ...