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Best Chicago Bears Twitter follows for 2023 training camp

Here are some Twitter (or X) accounts you should be following heading into Bears training camp this year.

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Sarah Jindra, Ji Suk Yi Named Anchors for WGN’s ‘Spotlight Chicago’

Late-afternoon show to debut this fall

Broadcasting & Cable

Bears WR Darnell Mooney says he’s ‘ready to roll’ for training camp

After suffering a broken ankle last year, Darnell Mooney told WGN's Kaitlin Sharkey he'll be ready when Bears training camp gets underway.

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Local News Close-Up: Chicago Is the City of Big Stories

Second City offers weather, crime and news from market’s many distinct neighborhoods

Broadcasting & Cable

Waukegan wants to be the next home of the Chicago Bears

With the Bears exploring other stadium options outside of Arlington Heights, Waukegan is the latest city to express interest.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chicago police officer dodged 44 traffic tickets by claiming his girlfriend stole his car

Jeffrey Kriv, 56, has been charged with felony perjury and forgery charges for the alleged scheme

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Will Connor Bedard help Blackhawks net favorable media-rights deals?

His likely arrival coincides with the final season of the Hawks’ rights agreements with NBC Sports Chicago and WGN Radio.

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How William Wrigley Jr. brought soap, gum and Chicago baseball broadcasting together

Early baseball owners feared radio, but Cubs owner Wrigley didn’t. When baseball was reinventing itself, Wrigley laid the groundwork for today’s great Chicago sports announcers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Fire TV voice Tyler Terens returns to call club’s games for Apple

Terens was the Fire’s TV voice on WGN since 2020, but with MLS making all of its games available on Apple TV, local announcers are a thing of the past. Now a worldwide voice, he’s back to call the Fire’s game Saturday at Soldier Field.

Chicago Sun-Times

ESPN 1000 takes Bears’ radio rights Wednesday; full day of programming planned

Bears games have aired on WBBM-AM (780) since 2000. The move gives ESPN 1000 a big opportunity to increase listenership after getting back into local rights with the White Sox in 2021.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ukraine war to be a long haul

Joseph Lindsley’s reports on WGN radio help Chicagoans empathize with protracted, far-off conflict.

Chicago Sun-Times

Longtime WGN anchor Jack Taylor dead at 94

The anchor, who had a seven-decade career in news, led WGN’s nightly news broadcast throughout the 1970s, working alongside Harry Volkman and Jack Brickhouse.

Chicago Sun-Times

Video shows physical altercation between student and staff member at Roosevelt High School in Albany Park

The video appears to show a staff member grabbing a student by the neck and shoving him to the ground. The staff member has been removed as a probe is conducted.

Chicago Sun-Times

Here’s how to watch tonight’s Chicago mayoral forum

All nine candidates running for Chicago mayor are expected to participate in a forum hosted by WGN on January 31 at 7 p.m.

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As the Cubs Convention opens, Chairman Tom Ricketts talks long-term free-agent contracts and the smaller national reach on Marquee

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs could not afford to sit on the sideline in free agency.

Chicago Sun-Times

Turnover in Blackhawks’ TV booth tops Chicago sports-media stories of 2022

Pat Foley’s departure signified the end of an era in Chicago sports broadcasting. He began with the Hawks in 1980 and was the last link to a golden age.

Chicago Sun-Times

Floyd Brown, trailblazing Chicago broadcaster, dies at 92

Floyd Brown had a gift of gab and broke racial barriers in radio and television, working for WMAQ and WGN.

Chicago Sun-Times

Roger Triemstra, longtime WGN meteorologist, dies at 92

Roger Triemstra blended scientific know-how with folksy humor in his reports, becoming one of the most trusted radio and television personalities in the Chicago area.

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Pro wrestling once made Chicago its king of the ring: How it rose and fell

Behind the outsized characters and good-versus-evil narratives, promoters used TV and strong-arm business deals to put the city on the pro wrestling map.

Chicago Sun-Times

Coverage of Aaron Judge’s home-run chase puts Len Kasper’s move to radio in focus

For those who still don’t accept Kasper’s rationale for leaving Cubs TV for White Sox radio nearly two years ago, consider what happened in baseball broadcasting last week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jack Quinlan still remembered, revered decades after his death

When former Blackhawks voice Pat Foley was calling a Cubs game last week, he made a point to credit Quinlan for “planting the seed” of his broadcast career. But Foley was just one of many kids influenced by Quinlan.

Chicago Sun-Times

How will MLS’ deal with Apple impact the Fire?

MLS matches will all be in the same spot, but the pact forces the Fire to leave WGN.

Chicago Sun-Times

Troy Murray, Patrick Sharp will split Blackhawks’ TV analyst role

John Wiedeman will return to the WGN radio booth and work with either Murray or Caley Chelios.

Chicago Sun-Times

WGN loses Fire as MLS moves games to Apple

The Fire’s exit from WGN isn’t as disappointing as that of the other teams in town, which had decadeslong relationships with the station. But it’s further evidence of the evolving sports-media landscape.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sullivan, Rabine, Schimpf, Solomon seek to catch up with frontrunners in GOP governor’s race

Venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan, former state Sen. Paul Schimpf, Hazel Crest attorney Max Solomon and businessman Gary Rabine are working to get their final messages to undecided voters. All four proudly say they voted for former president Donald Trump, are anti-abortion and pro-Second Amendment…

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