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The station was first licensed on May 27, 1925, [2] as WJBI, to Harold M. Couch at 104 Summitt Street in Peoria, for 100 watts on 1400 kHz. [5] Later that year, the station was sold to the parent company of the Boston Store (a Joliet-based store unrelated to the Wisconsin Boston Stores), which changed the call sign to WCLS, standing for "Will County's Largest Store".
In 1989, the station left the Embassy Hotel for studios near Milwaukee and Bryn Mawr, on Chicago's northwest side. Daniel Lee, who was now the owner of WSBC, purchased WCRW in June 1995 for $500,000. On June 17, 1996, WCRW signed off for the last time, almost 70 years after Clinton and Josephine White initially took to the airwaves.
WSBC (1240 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois. It broadcasts brokered programming, mostly ethnic and religious. It is owned by Hearland Signal LLC. [4] [5] WSBC transmits with 1,000 watts. Its transmitter site is on North Milwaukee Avenue at West Catalpa Avenue in Chicago. [6] It shares its tower with sister station WCPT ...
The paper maintains bureaus in Chicago city hall and the city's federal courts building. Like its larger counterparts, the newspaper also entered into the broadcasting business in 1925 with a license to operate radio station WBCN. WBCN started broadcasting on 1130 kHz from the paper's offices at 65th and Halsted.
WEDC was an AM radio station that operated on 1240 kHz in the Chicago market.It shared this frequency with WCRW and WSBC.The three stations operated as "shared-time stations" for most of their existence, a not uncommon arrangement in the early days of radio, but very rare in later years. [1]
Dziennik Związkowy (Polish Daily News) – Chicago (Polish) El Conquistador – Geneva (Spanish and English) Hlas Národa (The Voice of the Nation) – Chicago; Naród Polski – Chicago; Naujienos (socialist newspaper) (Lithuanian Daily News) – Chicago; Nedelni Hlasatel (formerly Denni Hlasatel) – Berwyn; Sonntagpost und Milwaukee ...
The University of Illinois Chicago, highways, and public housing replaced former Italian neighborhoods. This caused increasing numbers of Italians to move to suburbs west of Chicago. [1] In 1970, there were 202,373 Italian immigrants and children of Italian immigrants living in the Chicago area, making up about 3% of the total population.
WCPT (820 AM) is a commercial progressive talk radio station licensed to Willow Springs, Illinois. Owned by Heartland Signal LLC, the station serves the Chicago metropolitan area. The station's studios and daytime transmitter are located in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side, while its nighttime transmitter is located ...