John Williams

It’s time once again for our Best of the Midwest feature! Are you trying to come up with some vacation ideas that are only a quick getaway from the Chicago area? Well, John Williams has some great recommendations for your trip! Today, we head north and visit with Cari Greving, Executive Director, Visit Racine County! Cari tells John about Racine County being a water and outdoor recreation community, the best places to stay when you visit, why the Aquaducks Ski Show in Burlington is not to be missed, where to go to see live music, the food and drink to try on your trip, where to see Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, and the big events coming up this summer! Click the WGN Radio contest page for a chance to win a day of adventure in Wisconsin’s Kringle capital – Racine County!

John Williams brings you another round of Speed Jokes. Keep sending yours to [email protected]!

Attorney Rae Kaplan of Kaplan Law Firm joins John Williams to talk about a couple of approaching student loan relief deadlines that you should know about.

The Mincing Rascals this week are John Williams of WGN Radio, Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, Austin Berg of the Illinois Policy Institute, and Cate Plys, former staff writer at the Chicago Reader and political op-ed columnist at the Sun-Times and Tribune. The Rascals kick things off this week talking about the pro-Palestinian protests happening on college campuses around the country. How do the Rascals think the protests were handled? Do the current protests concern the Rascals about the upcoming DNC? Mayor Brandon Johnson is in Springfield today to meet with lawmakers about funding for CPS. How much money is CTU really looking for? South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is continuing to make news after claiming in her new book that she met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Does Governor Noem have any chance to be Donald Trump’s running mate? The city of Chicago is considering lowering the city’s speed limit on arterial streets from 30 mph to 25 mph. Do the Rascals think the speed limit should be lowered? The city wants to establish a ‘quiet zone’ around an abortion clinic in the West Loop. Is this an attack on free speech? And finally, the legendary musician and engineer Steve Albini passed away today at the age of 61. Cate shares her memories of going to school with Albini and what he meant to the music scene.

Journalist and best-selling author A.J. Jacobs joins John Williams to discuss his latest book, “The Year of Living Constitutionally.” A.J. talks about about why he tried to live like the Founding Fathers, how the book helped him understand how we should interpret the Constitution, what surprised him about the Constitution, and why it’s troublesome to have an inflexible Constitution. Click here to buy the new book!

Bob Bertog, president of Bertog Landscape Co. in Wheeling and a certified landscape professional with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, joins John Williams to answer all of your lawn and garden questions. Mother nature is confusing everybody right now so Bob gets you up to speed on what you need to be doing to protect your lawn and garden from the weather (and the cicadas!). And what does Bob think of No Mow May?

John Williams brings you another round of Speed Jokes. Keep sending yours to [email protected]!