{"id":21940,"date":"2019-06-05T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=21940"},"modified":"2019-06-05T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:44:45","slug":"alex-quigley-trades-radio-elgin-city-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/06\/05\/alex-quigley-trades-radio-elgin-city-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Quigley trades radio for Elgin city job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21941\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/06\/05\/alex-quigley-trades-radio-elgin-city-job\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21941\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21941\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alex-Quigley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alex-Quigley.jpg 570w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alex-Quigley-300x195.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alex-Quigley-500x325.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alex-Quigley-150x97.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alex-Quigley-400x260.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alex-Quigley-200x130.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Alex Quigley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not entirely clear if Alex Quigley left radio or radio left Alex Quigley.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the Chicago area broadcaster has traded his work behind a microphone for a desk job as content developer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofelgin.org\">city of Elgin.<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The last straw for Quigley, 40, was the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2019\/04\/03\/robservations-farewell-fox-rocker-finds-religion\/\"> demise<\/a> of WFXF 103.9-FM, the northwest suburban classic rocker, where he spent four years as program director and midday personality. The station was sold to Educational Media Foundation, which flipped it to a noncommercial Christian music format. In April, 103.9 The Fox vanished along with Quigley and his co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexanderquigley\/posts\/2265048003530641\">Facebook post<\/a> Tuesday, Quigley said his new job will entail handling written, social and audio and video content across Elgin's media channels, targeting \"everyone from city employees to residents to tourists.\"<\/p>\n<p>Quigley\u2019s radio career included on-air and management positions at multiple stations, including alternative rock WKQX 101.1-FM, news\/talk WGN 720-AM, classic rock WDRV 97.1-FM, Rivet Radio and the short-lived sports\/talk station known as 87.7 The Game. The Kankakee native graduated from the University of Illinois, where he was program director of the school's WPGU.<\/p>\n<p>\"Radio gave me a lot over the last couple decades,\" he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexanderquigley\/posts\/2265048003530641\">wrote.<\/a> \"Great friends, good times. . . . It's been my whole adult life.<\/p>\n<p>\"But it's been taking more than giving as the years roll on and the industry fades. My time at the Fox really was an anomaly: a fun bubble in the cornfield where a bunch of talented people actually got to do almost whatever we wanted to do, and it worked. Until it popped. And since I can't move across the country for a job, nor do I want to work in a format I'm not passionate about. . . . I'm really okay if running the Fox was my radio swan song.<\/p>\n<p>\"Maybe I'll fill-in from time to time somewhere if I wanna scratch that itch, maybe I'll do a podcast. Or maybe I'll just pour that energy into Elgin. I don't know. It's an amazing feeling to not know!\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not entirely clear if Alex Quigley left radio or radio left Alex Quigley. Either way, the Chicago area broadcaster has traded his work behind a microphone for a desk job as content developer for the city of Elgin.<\/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\/21940"}],"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=21940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21946,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions\/21946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}