Wow! – Tim Virgin
Wow! – Tim Virgin
Notorious bank robber John Dillinger’s been buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indiana since 1934, and the History Channel wants to dig him up.
Dillinger, who was famously gunned down in Chicago outside the Biograph Theater, is the subject of a new History Channel documentary. The network wants to exhume the body to confirm Dillinger’s identity. Some speculation has it that it’s not actually Dillinger in the grave.
Crown Hill opposes the action. In a statement, the cemetery says, “We … have concerns that the complex and commercial nature of this exhumation could cause disruption to the peaceful tranquility of the Cemetery and those who are visiting to remember their loved ones.”
A lot of people looking for a three-day getaway focus on starting the trip on Friday. Travel and Leisure says you should change your thinking and stay through Monday.
The biggest reason is that a lot of hotels have lower prices on Sunday nights. As travelers check out on Sunday to head back home and business travelers haven’t checked in for the week, you might be able to get a great deal on a room. On average, you can save up to 30 percent.
You might also save yourself airport headaches because Sunday is a popular travel day. If you wait until Monday to return, you won’t have to fight as much traffic and as many people at the airport. Dinner reservations and other activities might be easier to book on a Sunday as opposed to a Friday or Saturday night.
Also, Mondays can be a lot crazier in the office than Fridays. Make the vacation day count.
WKQX-FM’s “The Head and the Heart Ticket Blitz” Text Contest
Official Rules
A complete copy of these rules can be obtained at the offices of radio station WKQX-FM (“Station”), owned and operated by Cumulus Media Holdings Inc. or one of its subsidiary companies, 455 N. CityFront Plaza Chicago, IL 60611, during normal business hours Monday through Friday or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.
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Pedro Lugo used his Ring doorbell to virtually ‘meet’ his daughter’s date.
Since he was at work and unable to meet the new date, Jared, when he came to pick up his daughter, Grace, he used what tools he could.
All Jared was trying to do was take Grace for food and a movie, while making sure she’s home by 11 pm. Or as Pedro wanted, 10:30 pm.
Grace seemed a bit embarrassed when she came out onto the porch and realized what was happening. Her dad even kept telling her to get a photo of his license plates!
The only reason we get to enjoy this hilarious first date video is because her brother posted it on Instagram for us to enjoy.
Think they’ll have a second date or was the boy scared off?
We get it, as Fall approaches the pumpkin spiced products start getting announced when they will be coming back.
(Even though it’s only August right now and in the ‘80s but ok.)
Now another product has joined the pumpkin spice train: SPAM.
The canned meat produced had a viral fake in 2017 of the product.
But they are now making it REAL starting September 23rd, where it will be available at Spam.com and Walmart.com. (Online only)
The Daily Meal actually got an advanced tasting of the product. One taster said how it reminded them of breakfast sausages, while another one said: “it wasn’t as bad as I expected!”
Will you be giving this pumpkin-spiced food a taste?
We’ll probably hear another company jumping on the bandwagon soon. Or maybe get some pumpkin spiced toilet paper, who knows!
Twitter user @TerryPoundTown caught these two performing BDSM in the Orland Park Whole Foods parking lot.
@barstoolchicago @barstoolcarl Just another day in the Orland Park Whole Foods parking lot #getdownonyourkneesandtellmeyouloveme pic.twitter.com/KPbGU1XHai
— Touchdown Terry (@TerryPoundTown) August 13, 2019
Interesting how they seemed so comfortable doing it in broad daylight in a seemingly empty parking lot. But it’s not like they were naked or anything, it’s just not something you see when you go out grocery shopping.
Keep your eyes peeled next time you head out into Orland Park, you never know what you’ll see.
Jumping worms are everywhere, according to a new report by the University of Illinois Extension Service.
Jumping worms are also known as “crazy worms,” “Alabama jumpers” and “snake worms.” Why, you ask? BECAUSE THEY JUMP. The Tribune says,”if disturbed, they thrash violently and may leap around a little — it’s momentarily entertaining, in that scary-nature-show sort of way.”
Besides that, they’re just plain bad for the soil. They’re also tough to fight. They breed quickly and, according to the U of I report, their eggs can survive Illinois winters.
The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that the historic Aragon Ballroom will be renamed \”Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom.\”
Jason Wright, president of Live Nation, said in a statement to the paper:
“Byline Bank is committed to building relationships within the community, which is why we felt they are such a natural partner for this historic venue…Together, we will be able to establish genuine bonds with members of the community who have a passion for live music through seamless brand integration.”
What do you think of the new name?
Last year’s Out Of The Darkness Chicagoland Walk was incredible! Over 7,000 people walked with us and together we managed to raise over $1,000,000 to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention!
The money raised is used to:
This year we would like to go even bigger, but cannot without your help! It is absolutely free to join Team 101WKQX and walk with us September 21st, just register HERE!
If you would like to contribute to our team fundraising goal, your 100% tax deductible donation will be happily accepted HERE.
Walk Date: 09/21/2019 Walk Location: Montrose Harbor – Chicago, IL Check-in/Registration Time: 09/21/2019 at 9:00 am Walk Begins: 11:00 am Walk Ends: 1:00 pm |
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or would like to chat, my email is [email protected], twitter, instagram, or you can call in during my show, the studio line is 312-591-8300.
<3 Lauren
Here are some highlights from last year’s event:
Imagine a person creeping up to your home and leaving a TV on your front porch.
Now imagine that, but the person doing it also has has a massive television set on their head.
Strange but homeowners in Virginia are experiencing that right now, one’s doorbell surveillance camera even caught the mysterious man in the act.
According to reports, this happened to 50 homes in the Henrico’s Hampshire neighborhood.
Why?
No one seems to know, but Police officers have been notified and the only crime this mystery man is committing is illegal dumping. They’re just being more of an inconvenience to the community and officers who have to come to pick up the TVs.
Interestingly enough this happened before! Last summer another neighborhood had the exact same thing happening.
It seems like a harmless joke, but still very weird.
Leslie Jones is bold, loud, and hilarious on ‘Saturday Night Live’. The comedy titan brings all the thunder this Thursday to the Vic, and you can win tickets to the show by listening to the KQX Morning Crew.
Jones has been one of the highlights during the ‘Weekend Updates’ segments. Here is a reminder and maybe try not to play this loud with the kids around.
Leslie Jones plays a former WNBA player who settles down to get married, but apparently there is a lot of objections. Nearly 11 million other people watched this so you know it’s good.
Leslie Jones has had an ongoing odd couple love affair with cast mate Kyle Mooney. It’s really ridiculous.
She’s bold and unrelenting. She has been a critical player of the last few seasons of ‘Saturday Night Live’. Leslie Jones is playing the Vic on Thursday, and since the KQX Morning Crew is giving away tickets to her show, let’s look at some of her best bits on and off SNL.
In this outstanding stand up set on ‘Late Night’ from 2014, Jones describes what it’s like to be broken up with by a man wearing Crocs. Yes, he wore crocs.
Millions of people had hot takes on the controversial series finale of ‘Game of Thrones’, Jones and Seth Meyers had this wild time taking it all in.
Fresh off an incredible set at Lollapalooza and an entire Lou Malnati’s deep dish pizza… (video below) (of the performance, not the pizza)
Tenacious D aka Jack Black and Kyle Gass made the trip to Third Man Records in Nashville to collaborate with Jack White.
According to Black, the end result is the kickin’ chickin’… a stone cold jam. Can’t wait to hear it!
(P.S. there are some bleeped curse words and some unbleeped curse words, proceed with caution)
<3 Lauren
Get ready for Olive Gardens unlimited pasta pass!
For 9 weeks you can get an unlimited amount of pasta along with soup, salad, and breadsticks. All you’d have to do is be one of the 24,000 people on Thursday at 2 pm to purchase this yearly pass.
This year, 50 people will be picked by Olive Garden to receive a special upgrade to a lifetime pass. Which means unlimited pasta for LIFE. The catch? It costs around $500 for this lifetime pass.
If that’s too much out of your price range you can at least enjoy their regular pasta for $100.
9 weeks of unlimited pasta, soup, salad, and breadsticks? HECK YEAH.
If you really want one of the passes, make sure to be on pastapass.com at 1:55 pm on Thursday. Good Luck!
People send the wrong text every now and then to the wrong number, but has that number ever been a cops phone number?
Most of the time no, but this man wasn’t so lucky especially when he said: “We got high together.”
I don’t think the cop was gonna arrest him at all, he just wanted to go to the game he kept talking about.
Seems Starbucks is bringing back the Pumpkin Spice Latte earlier than ever before.
Starbucks employees told Bussiness Insider that PSL will hit menus on Tuesday, August 27th. Last year they launched the drink on August 28th.
SCOOP: Workers say Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte returns to menus on August 27, it’s earliest recorded official launch ever https://t.co/DXqUchDOP2
— Kate Taylor (@Kate_H_Taylor) August 12, 2019
It has not been officially announced when Starbucks will launch PSL, but employees have been posting on social about the rumored launch. If they do launch it would be the earliest launch of PSL EVER.
Here’s how this year’s launch compares with past years: https://t.co/DXqUchDOP2 pic.twitter.com/L6nrGEVzZn
— Kate Taylor (@Kate_H_Taylor) August 12, 2019
Even though it hasn’t been confirmed with Starbucks, Dunkin has announced their fall menu will premier on August 21.
At this rate, we will be haven’t pumpkin spice with our 4th of July.
On an August summer night in 1994, I was working the counter behind my family’s gas station in the Chicago suburb of Woodstock. Look it up if you aren’t familiar — it’s location is about to become key to this story.
A car pulled up and a girl around my age came in to ask for directions. “Where was the concert?,” she wondered — and *I* wondered if I was being pranked. Because — Woodstock ’94….was not here. This wasn’t real life, right? There’s no way someone thought a concert of THAT magnitude was in my hometown, right? RIGHT?!?
I will always remember being the one to break it to a car full of kids that on their journey from Vermont to Illinois, they passed right by the 25th anniversary of the original festival and probably should have made a U-turn somewhere in the last 900 miles. 😮
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the….well, 25th anniversary of Woodstock. This one was different. Louder, angrier, more electric bands. A raucous crowd four times the size expected. And a site that was soaked by rain and will forever be known as the festival of mud. Here’s some of the video highlights — [eric]
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Green Day skipped a show they were supposed to play to hit the Woodstock ’94 stage — and it was an amazing career decision. This famous mud fight during “Paper Lanterns” made the world take notice — and Dookie fly off the shelves.
Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon reportedly was tripping on LSD and wore his girlfriend’s dress during their first day set.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers decided to show up as incandescent light bulbs for their set. Drugs are a hell of a drug, amiright?
Les Claypool said he was still cleaning mud out of his bass cabinets in 2014. I’m not making that up, either. The crowd heard this song from Primus and thought they were being INVITED to throw the ground at the stage. Oops.
Another group that reportedly skipped a show to be a part of this memorable weekend? Cypress Hill.
Since 1997, New Found Glory has been producing awesome alt rock and punk rock music. Now, they’re coming back to the Chicagoland area by playing at Sideout’s Bar and Eatery at 6:30pm as part of the “Bands in the Sand” night on August 16th, 2019!
New Found Glory’s new movie covers EP, From The Screen to You Stereo 3, is available now on Hopeless Records! Get your tickets here.
Listen to our exclusive chat with NFG singer Jordan Pundik about the new EP, the longevity of band who was started before the digital era changed music, and how they have persisted through it all with a focus on fun.
Stream the new EP here:
WKQX-FM’s “Phantogram Best Seat in the house TEXT” Contest
Official Rules
A complete copy of these rules can be obtained at the offices of radio station WKQX (“Station”), owned or operated by Cumulus Media Holdings Inc. or one of its subsidiary companies, 455 N. CityFront Plaza, Chicago, IL 60611, during normal business hours Monday through Friday or by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.
The Station will conduct the WKQX-FM “Phantogram Best Seat in the house Text” Contest (the “Contest”) substantially as described in these rules, and by participating, each participant agrees as follows:
There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that the Station may, at its sole discretion and to the extent permitted by law, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses. Any tickets and/or gift certificates/cards awarded as part of a prize will be subject to the terms and conditions set forth by the issuer and are valid only on the date(s) printed on the tickets or gift certificates/cards. Other restrictions may apply.
CONTEST SPONSOR: Cumulus Media Holdings Inc., WKQX, 455 N. CityFront Plaza, Chicago, IL 60611