I wish to thank the Chicago Tribune for the excellent editorials and news stories related to the Bob Collins’ mid-air collision. I know it was especially difficult for the Tribune, as Bob was a ...

Every morning the sun rises. We know this. We are comforted by this. But those dark hours just before dawn are a lonely time and at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday a solitary man, a Salvation Army soldier name… ...

2000: WGN-AM 720 morning host Bob Collins was among three people killed in a midair collision of two small planes in Zion, about 45 miles north of Chicago. ... ©2025 Chicago Tribune.

For 33 years, Roger Triemstra was a popular meteorologist and a purveyor of folksy humor on Chicago’s airwaves, first on WGN-Ch. 9 and then on WGN-AM radio, where he was a staple on the late Bob ...