How is this for an unexpected treat! It’s time for a special edition of “Reality Check” with the Chicago Tribune‘s Tracy Swartz! Tracy talks about the Chicago contestants on this season of “The Bachelorette” and “MasterChef” and tonight’s season premiere of “Black Ink Crew.” Follow Justin on Twitter and give him a like on Facebook. The Download with Justin Kaufmann airs Monday through Friday from 7 pm. to 11 pm on @WGNRadio

It’s Wednesday night so that means it’s time for the Swap Meet sponsored by Wolff’s Flea Market!  Greg Flamm aka The DuPage Picker is here to evaluate your junk! Want to know how much your “Epton for Mayor” campaign button is worth? Do you think your unopened bottle of Jeppson’s Malört might make you some money? What about your signed Hank Aaron bat? You have the questions and Greg has the answers! It’s “The Swap Meet!” Follow Justin on Twitter and give him a like on Facebook. The Download with […]

We have a terrific show for you this evening! On tonight’s episode of The Download, we get our weekly visit from The Daily Line’s Heather Cherone and A.D. Quig to get you up to speed on the local political stories you need to be paying attention to, author Michelle Falkoff tells us about her new book, “Questions I Want to Ask You,” the Chicago Tribune’s Tracy Swartz makes her triumphant return to the show to talk all things Chicago television, […]

Justin spent the long holiday weekend with his family in New York City. Let him take you on a virtual tour of the magnificent city complete with Lil Rel Howery and Colin Quinn sightings. Also, there is garbage on the streets! Follow Justin on Twitter and give him a like on Facebook. The Download with Justin Kaufmann airs Monday through Friday from 7 pm. to 11 pm on @WGNRadio

The Carry Out is the nightly segment where Justin reads the news so you don’t have to. Tonight’s top stories include Chicago’s violent holiday weekend, a CFD diver dying trying to rescue a missing boater, ABC putting an end to “Roseanne” after Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet, conservatives calling for Bill Maher to be fired, the Cubs taking on the Pirates in Pittsburgh, the White Sox losing to the Indians, the Cleveland Cavaliers set to take on the Golden State Warriors in the […]

The Carry Out is the nightly segment where Justin reads the news so you don’t have to. Tonight’s top stories include Chicago’s violent holiday weekend, a CFD diver dying trying to rescue a missing boater, ABC putting an end to “Roseanne” after Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet, conservatives calling for Bill Maher to be fired, the Cubs taking on the Pirates in Pittsburgh, the White Sox losing to the Indians, the Cleveland Cavaliers set to take on the Golden State Warriors in the […]

It’s Tuesday night so that means it is time to come together and collectively complain and bemoan about #TheWorst things in society…for prizes! Tonight, Justin is joined by the always delightful and hilarious Elizabeth Gomez! Do you know what’s the worst? Mumblers. Follow Justin on Twitter and give him a like on Facebook. The Download with Justin Kaufmann airs Monday through Friday from 7 pm. to 11 pm on @WGNRadio

Tanner Woodford, Founder and Executive Director of the Chicago Design Museum and Eva Silverman, Project Director, Art Design Chicago join Justin to discuss the Chicago Design Museum’s new exhibit, “Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container.” Tanner and Eva talk about how this exhibition came about, why Art Design Chicago is involved in the project, putting a design component to words and quotes and how they work together, the interactive part of the exhibition, the role that design plays in […]

Mark Caro and Chris Jones fill in for The Download on Memorial Day! The pair talks with Tribune literary editor Elizabeth Taylor about the late Phillip Roth, Tom Wolfe and the upcoming Printers Row Lit Fest. Eddie Lakin of Edzo’s discusses the future of food service and Sarah Stegner of Prairie Grass Cafe and Gregory Hall, founder of Virtue Cider and Goose Island Beer join us for our food hour! TV critic Maureen Ryan, mostly recently at Variety, discusses the […]

Mark Caro and Chris Jones are joined by TV critic Maureen Ryan, to discuss the #MeToo Movement, the Showtime New York Times series “The Fourth Estate” and the question “What TV show would you bring with you on a desert island?” is posed. Check out Maureen on Twitter by clicking here!