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Over the past month or so we've seen food product recalls of salads, pet foods, and muffins, all for different reasons. Two had a problem with Salmonella, another involved the potential for listeria. Now comes another recall, and this time it's beef.

The two windy city teams made some very significant trades, even a few with each other, that will alter the baseball landscape in Chicago for years to come.

Dr. Dennis Norem made his weekly visit to the show to give us the latest on the coronavirus, COVID-19, and the vaccine rollout.

During the heart of the pandemic, online sales were absolutely through the roof. Even though COVID-19 seems to be on the downside, the bad guys are still furiously trying to grab your online shopping money and more.

It seems as though we just can't get away from Bigfoot. It was a little over a week ago that Joe Dredge wrote a piece on this site about a Bigfoot and Bigfoot baby possibly being filmed in Michigan.

Simone Biles will compete in the final event of the women's Olympic gymnastics competition, the balance beam. The event will take place on Tuesday in Tokyo.

Our good friend Laura Gibbs-Green joined the show today for her weekly segment to let us know what to do over the weekend in the Rockford Park District.

When alert listener Paul shared this story with me, he concluded by asking me if I "even knew that this was a thing." I guess my answer would be yes, but no.

It's been a rough few weeks for Cub fans and it looks like it could get rougher over the next 24 hours.

I've always thought that if we purchased (in abundance) the products that are pitched to us during the course of an NFL game, we'd all have several large pickup trucks, and they'd all be filled with beer.

If this is just the Cubs social media trying to lighten the mood on a depressed fan base, then I'd like to let them know that it worked.

Honestly, probably not but this might be a good thing to bring up just for social awareness.

Being a parent is the toughest job in the world, but there are moments of joy and laughter that make it the BEST job in the world. This is one of those moments.

I'm stunned. As I was flipping through the list of The World's Most Beautiful Museums, half expecting to see an Illinois mention, I got Wisconsin instead.

Not because the best burger in Illinois doesn't come from Rockford.

Spend a night, an entire night, at a one-of-a-kind drive-in movie experience. Blood, gore and many levels of terrifying await you at Sterling's Midway Drive-In.

In the interests of full disclosure, I'll happily confess to not being a Facebook user. Sure, we use it at the radio station to share things like this with you, but as far as personal use goes, I'm really just not interested.

A video and a not-well thought-out decision are the reasons an Illinois woman is in trouble with National Park Services.