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 ...

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.

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 ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — When their tax bills arrive, Cook County homeowners may be in for a big surprise, according to an analysis by the office of Treasurer Maria Pappas. After a monthslong delay, the second ...

FREEPORT, Ill. — Former Chicago radio personality Joe “JoBo” Colborn from the famed show “Eddie & JoBo” has died at the age of 70. In an update, the Stephenson County Coroner tells WGN, “there was no ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Mercedes Wells and her husband Leon sat inside a Chicago law firm on Tuesday, contemplating action against a local hospital just days after giving birth. It was around midnight ...

CHICAGO — An early-morning outage kept X users from catching up on their feeds on Tuesday. According to Downdetector, a website that tracks the status of websites based on user-submitted reports, ...

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 — A music mash-up that you may not expect is happening at the Lyric Opera of Chicago: a collaboration of classical musicians, along with the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan. With 30 million ...

Demetri Martin is a standup comedian, writer, and director. He’s doing two shows at the Vic Theatre on November 22. He has appeared on American Dad, We Bare Bears, the Rocker, Taking Woodstock and ...

CHICAGO — The Chicago holiday season kicked off Friday downtown with the annual tree lighting ceremony. The festivities started at 5 p.m. at Millennium Park with performances by DJ Mike P and Mara ...

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 ...