On April 24, 1998, WGN Radio host Spike O’Dell had the opportunity to speak with STS-90 pilot Scott Altman and mission specialist Rick Linnehan while they were in orbit aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. From the WGN archives, January 17, 1962. A ...

June Lockhart, best known for her work on “Lassie” and “Lost In Space,” has died at age 100. In December, 2013, Paul Lisnek spoke with Lockhart about her work on those shows, an honor she received ...

Robert Redford, the Hollywood superstar actor turned Oscar-winning director and environmental activist, has died at age 89. Over the years, he spoke several times with WGN’s Dean Richards. Here are a ...

Bob Collins talks with Gov. Jim Edgar in late 1998, shortly before Gov. Edgar’s departure from office in January 1999. Gov. Edgar died today at age 79.

Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76 according to various reports. His death comes just weeks after a final performance with the original members of his band, Black Sabbath. Here are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Loretta Swit, best known for her role on the ...

From May 24, 2015: Songwriter Bobby Hart joins Dave Plier to talk about being half of one of the most powerful musical duos, ‘Boyce & Hart’, working with music icons Don Kirshner and Dick Clark, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. George Ryan, who served Illinois as ...

George Wendt, whose career included performing at Chicago’s Second City, starring on the Emmy-award winning “Cheers,” and playing Bob Swerski in the iconic “Saturday Night Live” sketch “The Superfans, ...

In the summer of 1925, a high school biology teacher in Tennessee named John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his students. At the time, Tennessee law ...