Throughout his media career, including many years at Chicago’s famed Gannett-owned WGCI/WVON, Stanciel broke ground, opening doors for the future of corporate spending with African American ...

Jesse Jackson Jr., the former U.S. congressman and son of civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, is set to join radio station WVON-AM/1690, a long-standing platform in Black talk radio.

Those of you within the sound of WVON 1450-AM in the 1960s and ’70s know the big sound created by this tiny 1,000-watt station. It became a giant in the radio industry. First, let’s step back ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Perri Small, host of “Midday Madness,” has retired from WVON. Rick Majewski/For the Sun-Times, file Share On Friday, Chicago talk radio host Perri Small ...

Now she has. In an interview in early August with Chicago radio news station WVON 1690, Ms. Gates was asked to respond to the union’s critics who are concerned that so many of Chicago’s ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas doing her weekly live radio show on WVON AM 1690 encouraging taxpayers to check if they’ve overpaid their property taxes.

Joe Cobb and Don Cornelius met when they were both working at WVON, the Black radio station in Chicago, back in the 1960s. Cornelius used that broadcasting experience for the 1971 launch of Soul ...

Unapologetically Black” is the phrase used by both host Atiba Buchanan and longtime listener Shapearl Wells to describe WVON. For sixty years, WVON, found on the radio at 1690 AM, has served the ...

He started out as a Chicago cop. Legend has it he was discovered by an executive at radio station WVON during a traffic stop. The exec was blown away by Don's voice and suggested he get into radio.

Legend has it that he was discovered by an executive at radio station WVON during a traffic stop, when the exec was blown away by Don’s voice and suggested he come work at the station.

Martin Show in the WVON Radio, Chicago, IL. The year with the highest average number of views per program was 2007 with an average of 2,428 views per program as an Executive Editor for the Chicago ...