This Christmas, WGN Radio will once again air the Dusty Rhodes Christmas Specials commercial-free beginning Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 2pm through Friday, Dec. 26 at 4am. The commercial-free ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a Metra train on the South Side in the city’s Chicago Lawn neighborhood, according to the train transportation company. A Metra Spokesperson ...

(The Hill) – The mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was detained by immigration agents and is in the process of being removed from the country, the Trump administration ...

Last Saturday marked 38 years since WGN’s tv signals were hijacked in the “Max Headroom” incident. On November 22nd, 1987 someone, dressed as “Max Headroom,” hacked into the signal at WGN and PBS.

Shedeur Sanders will make his second NFL start on Sunday when the Cleveland Browns host the San Francisco 49ers. Coach Kevin Stefanski made the announcement Monday that Sanders would get another week ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Morgan Geyser, the woman convicted in the Wisconsin Slender Man stabbing a decade ago, appeared in a Chicago courtroom Monday after escaping her group home Saturday. Police in Madison, ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — At least seven teens were hospitalized on Friday following an overnight shooting in the Loop. According to police, the gunfire erupted just before 10 p.m. in the 100 block of North ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – A man was shot and killed inside a North Side home late Friday afternoon. Chicago police said the shooting happened just after 4:30 p.m. in the 600 block of West Division Street near ...

1924: The first college football game was played at Municipal Grant Park Stadium (Soldier Field). Notre Dame beat Northwestern 13-6. The floor of the Democratic National Convention at the ...

It’s been a rough week for eagles in the southwestern suburbs. A resident in Crest Hill spotted two bald eagles in a driveway Friday morning. They were locked in each other’s talons and unable to ...

CHICAGO — WGN’s Dean Richards offers a look at some of the shows and events taking place around Chicagoland this weekend. In music, 17-time Grammy winner Sting returns to the Chicago area. See him at ...

From Star Wars to Jaws, some of the most iconic movie lines were actually unscripted. Larry runs through some of the best. Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks ...