John Williams (born October 19, 1959)[1] is an American talk radio show host at WGN (AM) in Chicago and previously at WCCO (AM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
[1][4] He also wrote a series of joke books, titled The Spieler Scale of Comedy.
[5] After four years at WCCO (AM) in Minneapolis, Williams was hired at WGN (AM) in Chicago in September 1997.
[4][6] Williams enjoys reading, running (including once around the block outside WGN in long underwear to fulfill a pledge), and playing basketball.
He is married, has two sons, and his late dachshund named Fred, who he called "The World's Largest Wiener Dog".