We lost a good friend. Dick Johnson was a giant in Chicago television, but that wasn\u2019t who he was to us. He was our friend. I first met Dick when I was a news stringer on a story in Braidwood. He gave me some advice: Always grab an ice cream when in a small town. It\u2019s delicious! Years later I asked him about that. His reply: \"I\u2019ve given you so much advice and that\u2019s what you remember?!\" He did always give me great advice. As a stepdad, I frequently had questions about kids, and as a man who always put family and friends first, he always gave me solid advice. I will always appreciate that. He was a funny, approachable, silver-lining kind of guy, which again was good because we sometimes covered terrible stories, but working with a genuinely caring person always made it easier. He touched everyone he got to know. My kids always asked to see him when they visited the station. Grateful to have had him as a friend. We will miss him. Thinking of his family tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a presidential election less than five months away, WGN 720-AM is about to drop its weekly political talk show to add another nostalgic music program to its lineup. \"The Sunday Spin: Politics with Rick Pearson,\" hosted since 2013 by the chief political reporter for the Chicago Tribune, airs from 5 to 7 p.m. Sundays... 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\/25815"}],"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=25815"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25824,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions\/25824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}