<\/a>Keith Middleton<\/p><\/div>\n
Keith Middleton,<\/strong> a prominent suburban Chicago broadcaster for decades, died Saturday in Munster, Indiana, after a long illness. He was 85. A longtime host on WJOB in Hammond, Indiana, Middleton retired in 2009 as station manager and host at WCGO 1600 AM in Chicago Heights. As a young singer and recording artist, he was a winner of \u201cThe Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour\" on radio. He also was a U.S. Marine veteran. He is survived by his wife and three sons, including Brian Middleton,<\/strong> who was an on-air personality on WBBM FM 96.3 and the former WILV (now WSHE FM 100.3). Services will be held September 17 at Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: Chicago magazine editor and publisher Susanna Homan calls it \u201cour biggest story of the year,\u201d and that\u2019s no exaggeration. Contributing writer David Bernstein\u2019s exclusive interview with former Governor Rod Blagojevich in Chicago\u2019s October issue includes the first published photo of him in the federal penitentiary in Englewood, Colorado. \u201cThe prison... 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\/15449"}],"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=15449"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15463,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions\/15463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}