I'm talking before the rise of FM radio though. Larry Lujack, John "Records" Landecker and the rest spinning rock and roll records. Back when a DJ could be an honest to goodness local hero and the music ruled the radio.

This was back in the day before FM rose to prominence and WLS was a 50,000-watt blowtorch across the midwest after dark.

and then, horrors - right wing talkery!

People are finally beginning to see what 45 years of conservatism from both parties have gotten them. All those "business friendly" administrations have done nothing but decrease the amount of businesses selling things people need and want while driving wages down below subsistence.

A lot of people have finally had enough. They still want to drive that Cadillac driving, ten kids by ten different men inner city welfare queen off welfare. They still don't know she was always a fiction.

WTH??

I listen on the computer every day.
Many years ago I was an avid WGN listener, but last time I turned them on it sounded like yet another RW station.

then on to Stephanie and Ed and Tom. They need to market their station better but that takes money.

Chicago is a funny town and I've lived here all my life. I still can't peg where it stands, politically. The lakefront is liberal but the further you get into the neighborhoods, it gets more conservative with a few exceptions where young people have settled not too far from downtown.

City employees have to live in the city limits and they tend to be conservative - except the ones who live on the lakefront.

Very frustrating. And then, of course, Rham got elected, mainly by south siders, who are now disillusioned with him.

Metheny (made famous as "Pig Vomit" in Howard Stern's Private Parts) was the program director brought in to convert WGN into another WLS. He mainly managed to insult and drive away the audience. WGN is now run by the guys who ran The Loop back in the 80's/90's and is trying to re-attract its traditional middle-aged, middle of the road audience. The morning guy, Steve Cochrane is somewhat RW but mostly just an idiot savant who knows how to run a tight talkradio show.

I remember in H.S. Drivers Ed, we'd always head to the donut shop and listen to Animal Stories during the Lujack show.
In the late 70's we'd follow the WLS Magic Bus (shown below while towing a parade float) to get our way-too-cool WLS t-shirts (below as well).