Months after WCFL-AM traded jazz programming for rock ‘n’ roll in 1965, Mike Rapchak could take no more. Decrying a new format he described as “garbage,” the disc jockey quit his job of seven years.

Jimmy Pearson Staggs was known as Jim Stagg to teenagers tuned in to WCFL-AM during afternoons in the 1960s and 1970s. A disc jockey who toured with the Beatles in the mid-1960s, bringing listeners ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- The end of an era comes crashing down in the suburbs on Monday. Chopper 7 was over the planned demolition of three giant radio towers in Downers Grove. Many considered ...