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A Lake Zurich man took a childhood illness and love of LEGO to help sick kids.

Author and food and nutrition expert Dawn Jackson Blatner joins John Williams to give us some suggestions for fun and healthy things to eat for your Memorial Day cookout. And as always, Dawn answers all of your nutrition questions.

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

Kelly Leonard, Vice President, Creative Strategy, Innovation and Business Development at The Second City and host of the “Getting to Yes, And…” podcast, joins John Williams to talk about an upcoming podcast episode where he interviewed Ha Joon Chang about his book, “Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World.” Kelly explains how a chapter […]

The Mincing Rascals this week are Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, and Austin Berg of the Illinois Policy Institute. Eric and Austin discuss a variety of topics including the ongoing debt limit negotiations. What do Eric and Austin think of this problem that shows up every few years? Mayor Brandon Johnson presided over his first city […]

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

Abrar Al-Heeti, video host and producer for CNET, joins John Williams to tell us everything we need to know about the rebranding of HBO Max as Max. How will this impact you and your subscription to the streaming service?

Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, joins John Williams to talk about why he felt Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inaugural speech missed the mark when he linked the fatal shooting of Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston to CPD officer Eric Stillman fatally shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo. John and Eric also debate their rankings of the best months […]

Liza Lehrer, Assistant Director of the Urban Wildlife Institute at Lincoln Park Zoo, joins John Williams to talk about a family of foxes that have been spotted in Millennium Park’s Lurie Garden. Liza explains why she isn’t too surprised to see these foxes living in Chicago, if this means anything about the health of their […]

Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about the diabetes drug Ozempic being used for weight loss, how obesity is becoming a major public health problem around the world, and what we need to know about Senator Dianne Feinstein developing post-shingles encephalitis.