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.

Bob Collins was Chicago’s top-rated morning radio host until his death in February 2000 after his and a student pilot’s plane collided upon approach to the runway at Waukegan Regional Airport.

I remember calling “The Bob Collins Show” one frigid January day a few years ago. My purpose was to rib the king. “I’m going to Florida tomorrow, and you’re not,&#8221… ...