Five years ago today was an awful day for all of of us who adored and admired Larry Lujack. I was honored to be Lar's producer for his last three years at WLS. I mean how many people can say they worked for their idol? After his retirement in 1987 we continued a special friendship that lasted until his passing. My own radio memoir will be coming out in 2019 and there are many fond and funny stories about my days with the one and only \u201cSuperjock.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: It\u2019s not too early to start making your TV viewing plans for New Year\u2019s Eve. Mark Giangreco and Janet Davies will mark their 18th year of ringing in the New Year together when they host \u201cCountdown Chicago 2019\u201d on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7. Joining them from venues around the city and... 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\/20243"}],"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=20243"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20258,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20243\/revisions\/20258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}