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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Roeder

Chicago’s a big market for AM radio, but electric vehicles loom as a buzzkill

Jim Stagg, a DJ at WCFL, hands out Beatles concert tickets to prize winners in 1966, the height of Chicago’s AM radio Top 40 era. (Sun-Times archives)

The radio industry is dealing with a bad case of static.

Some automakers plan to remove AM radio from new electric vehicles, but a number of legislators and the broadcast industry are pushing to pass a bill that would keep AM radio in cars.

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