For a century, it has served the Midwest with one of the station’s biggest AM radio signals. From the 1960s through the mid-1980s, it was one of the world’s most-listened-to Top 40 radio stations.

With five weeks left on his contract, Garry Meier, half of the No. 2-rated afternoon radio team in the city, was unexpectedly pulled off the air by station bosses after his show Friday night as both ...

On April 12, 1924, Sears, Roebuck and Company officially began broadcasting its new radio station from the Sherman House Hotel in Chicago, naming it WLS (for "World's Largest Store"), Robert Feder ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago radio icon Steve Dahl is launching his new show on WLS-AM radio Monday afternoon. He's been doing a podcast for six years and now he can be heard every afternoon. "It seems ...

Citadel’s WLS-AM Chicago is pulling the plug on former IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich — at least for now. Officials with WLS say they’re putting Blago’s weekly Sunday afternoon radio show on hiatus until ...

In 1989, a brash 31-year-old program director named Drew Hayes launched a brand-new news/talk format at WLS-AM (890). Together with president and general manager Tom Tradup (and with a little help ...

With the world of sports at a standstill because of the pandemic, it may seem like an odd time to launch a sports talk show. But that's not stopping WLS 890-AM, Robert Feder writes. Beginning tonight ...

The longtime host of ‘Living Healthy Chicago’ on WGN-9 has joined the WLS-AM on-air team as a contributor for The Steve Cochran Show. Chicago radio and television personality Jane Clauss will now be ...

He passed away from esophageal cancer at the age of 73 in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Wednesday night. When he hit the Chicago airwaves, rock and roll radio was never the same. That voice, that sarcastic ...

THE FOOTE FILES (CBSDFW.COM) — As tensions in Europe began to increase during the 1930s, a disastrous event took place on May 6, 1937 in New Jersey, and radio was there to cover it for Americans. The ...

This distinctive, polarizing but certifiably energetic (and for a time wildly popular) radio personality, real name Erich Muller, announced Tuesday that he would be leaving his radio home at WLS-AM ...