WONU (89.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Kankakee, Illinois, United States, and serving the region south of the Chicago metropolitan area.
[1] It is a non-profit, listener-supported station owned and operated by Olivet Nazarene University, which is located in Bourbonnais, Illinois.
Moore returned to Kansas City in 1968, leaving the station in the hands of broadcasting students such as Russ Bredholt.
By the spring of 1977, from WKOC's inception in 1967, over 250 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) radio licenses had been granted to Olivet students who successfully completed testing.
Vernon Nazarene College's radio station, Professor Bill DeWees, was hired to lead WONU.
On December 28, 2010, WONU began a simulcast broadcast in Lowell, Indiana at 88.5 FM on WTMK-FM, purchased from the Calvary Radio Network.
In 2008, some listeners reported static in the signal, due to a new Chicago Public Radio station operating in Chesterton, Indiana on 89.5 under the call sign WBEW.
On July 28, 2011, WONU purchased WHZN at 88.3, New Whiteland, Indiana in the Indianapolis media market, from Horizon Christian Fellowship.
On December 1, 2014, WONU purchased translator W237BY at 95.3 FM in Mason, Michigan in the Lansing radio market from the Educational Media Foundation.
WONU promotes and hosts Contemporary Christian concerts in the Kankakee area and on the Olivet Nazarene University campus.