11 Facts About Larry Lujack

Larry Lujack spent a few months there before being hired at WLS.

Larry Lujack started reading some of them and began airing stories from them instead of reading the grain reports connected with the Farm Report.

Larry Lujack retired in 1987, shortly after his son John from his first marriage died in an accident.

In 1997, Larry Lujack moved from Palatine, Illinois, to the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and, in May 2000, began working again, for then-WUBT in Chicago, via a remote Integrated Services Digital Network link from a New Mexico recording studio, teaming up with Matt McCann who was based in the Chicago studio.

Larry Lujack was inducted into the Illinois Broadcasters Association's Hall of Fame in June 2002, the National Radio Hall of Fame on November 6,2004, and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame on April 15,2008, during their annual convention in Las Vegas.

Larry Lujack later changed his last name to that of his football idol, Johnny Lujack.

Larry Lujack attended the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, and Washington State University and was a radio disc jockey, starting in 1958, at KCID in Caldwell.

Larry Lujack's entry into radio while a biology major at College of Idaho was a matter of finances; at the time he was looking for a part-time job.

Larry Lujack subsequently worked at several other radio stations, including KJR in Seattle, but is best known for his antics on Chicago AM radio stations WLS and WCFL.

Larry Lujack had three children from his first marriage and a stepson from his second.

Not just a "fair weather" golfer, Larry Lujack suited up in winter clothing and snowshoes to play Chicago area golf courses in winter.