Facebook <\/a>fans: \u201cThanks for all the prayers, all the good thoughts, all the well wishes. I think it did some good because I am back.\u201d<\/p>\nA Philadelphia native who began his radio career in Detroit, Banks became a legend in Chicago \u2014 starting in 1982 at the former WBMX and later at WGCI, where he first hit No. 1 in the ratings. In 1995 he signed a multimillion-dollar deal with ABC to host a syndicated show from Dallas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried everything we could to keep Doug in Chicago, but he had his heart set on syndication.\u201d Dyson recalled. \u201cHe saw syndication as his future and he was right.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a 2000 interview, Banks told me: \u201cI\u2019m very blessed to have made enough of an impact that people remember. I was lucky enough to catch a ride on \u2018BMX when that train came rolling through. And when I made the move to \u2018GCI, that was a hell of lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Banks is survived by his wife, Wendy, three daughters and one son. Funeral arrangements are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was impossible not to like Doug Banks. That\u2019s what endeared him to legions of fans and admirers over more than three decades as a top-rated and nationally syndicated radio personality and popular television host in Chicago. Banks died Monday at his home in Florida from complications related to diabetes and kidney failure, according to... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}