28 Facts About Bruce Wolf

Bruce Wolf was born on September 11,1953 and is a veteran Chicago broadcaster and sports anchor who has been on both TV and radio for more than 20 years.

Bruce Wolf formerly hosted a politics-themed talk show weekday mornings on WLS radio in Chicago.

Bruce Wolf fills in as a sportscaster on WMAQ-TV in Chicago and works part-time as a divorce attorney.

The son of Ira Wolf, a hardware store owner in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Wolf grew up in Skokie, Illinois.

Bruce Wolf, who is an attorney, earned a degree in journalism at Northwestern University in 1975 and earned a JD degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Bruce Wolf first started working full-time for Lerner Newspapers from 1972 to 1981 and was doing play-by-play broadcasts on two small radio stations.

Bruce Wolf caught a break when WXRT radio's owner Dan Lee walked into Wolf's father's hardware store and asked if Wolf would be interested in a vacant sportscasting position.

Bruce Wolf began hosting Athletes' Feats on WXRT from 1976 until 1982.

In 1987, Bruce Wolf joined WFLD FOX News Chicago, where he became the morning sports anchor.

From around 1990 until around 1991, Bruce Wolf co-hosted 9:30, an informal talk show on WFLD-TV airing right after the station's 9 pm newscast.

In 2003, Bruce Wolf publicly criticized a sportscasting rival at WMAQ-TV for wearing a Chicago Bears logo shirt while covering Bears' pre-season games, suggesting that the move undermined the rival's credibility.

One was that Bruce Wolf's contract was too rich for the station.

Bruce Wolf turned around and denigrated the gesture during his sports segment, leading to an off-camera incident with a producer.

The second incident, at the Chicago Auto Show in February 2006, involving a taped off-beat segment involving Bruce Wolf interviewing a man standing outside of the Auto Show in front of his own car.

Bruce Wolf apparently asked if he could "key" the car, and the man dared him to do so.

In December 2006, an independent arbitrator ruled that WFLD had no reason to terminate Bruce Wolf, and awarded him full back pay and severance.

In September 2006, Bruce Wolf joined WMAQ-TV as a traffic and sports reporter.

Bruce Wolf was let go from WMAQ-TV on a permanent basis when his contract expired in February 2008.

Since leaving WMAQ-TV on a full-time basis in February 2008, Bruce Wolf has continued to occasionally fill in at WMAQ-TV as a sports anchor.

In September 1991, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Bruce Wolf was set to join a new all-sports talk radio station as an afternoon sports talk host.

In February 1994, Bruce Wolf ceased working as a morning sports anchor for WLUP's Kevin Matthews to join WLUP's sister station, WMVP, as the morning sports anchor for Steve Dahl.

Between May 1996 and 1998, Bruce Wolf largely was off Chicago's radio airwaves, although he performed occasional vacation fill-in work, most notably at WCKG-FM.

In January 1998, Bruce Wolf returned to Chicago's radio airwaves as the morning news and sports anchor for host Jonathon Brandmeier on WCKG-FM.

Between 1998 and 2003, Bruce Wolf largely was off Chicago's radio airwaves, although he performed occasional vacation fill-in work and had his Chet Chitchat character contribute weekly segments on Friday mornings on Kevin Matthews' show on then-ABC Radio-owned WXCD-FM between 2000 and 2001.

For many months, Bruce Wolf was blogging in a now-neglected blog at ChicagoNow.

Bruce Wolf moved to Deerfield, Illinois in 2007 and then to his current home on a farm in Old Mill Creek, Illinois in 2010.

Bruce Wolf worked full-time as a lawyer for the Chicago law firm Holstein, Mack and Klein from 1982 until 1987.

Bruce Wolf decided to leave the law in 1987 to focus full-time on broadcasting.