By Rick Kaempfer
WE ARE ILLINI, WE ARE WPGU
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F R I D AY, O C T O B E R 3
Celebrate Oktoberfest the FitzGerald's way with an evening of western
swing, rockabilly, traditional country and good ole rock 'n' roll.
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
with
Red Elvises and Kory Quinn
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Legendary Dream Syndicate vocalist in the Sidebar
Steve Wynn
plus
Expo '76
have a confession to make. I'm an Illini.
It happened many years ago, and I
don't often speak of it in public, but it's
true. And I'm not alone. We're all around
you. There are dozens of us working in
Chicago media today.
You know their names. You know their
faces. But until now, you probably didn't
know that without a certain radio station in
Champaign-Urbana (WPGU), these fellow
Illini probably wouldn't have made it in
the cutthroat media world.
The man in the photo is radio personality Rick O'Dell. You've heard him on the
radio in Chicago for the past thirty years
spinning smooth jazz, but have you ever
seen him in his pre-smooth days? Working
at WPGU radio was more than ju