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Quest For Gold – Episode 12: United States Women’s National Team Turns the Page After World Cup
On this week’s Quest for Gold…Simone Biles is the GOAT. Check out the Biles and the Biles II at the Artistic World Championships in Germany! She is now the most decorated women’s gymnast ever, with 22 medals. The U.S. Women’s Olympic Softball team has been announced. We hear from former Chicago Bandit Monica Abbott, who is looking to turn her 2008 silver into gold! St. Rita grad and Orland Park native Mark Payton is in contention to make the USA […]
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Quest For Gold – Episode 11: WGN’s Ben Bradley Reflects on Chicago’s Failed 2016 Olympic Bid, 10 Years Later
On this week’s Quest for Gold: -The USWNT is in Chicago this weekend -Olympic bids to be awarded in Rockford -Chicago’s Tori Franklin advances at the Worlds -US Gymnastics will be on the world stage And we talk to WGN-TV’s Ben Bradley about the 10 year anniversary of Chicago’s failed 2016 Olympic Bid. Ben digs deep into the expectations, the disappointment, and how that failed bid has shaped the city since.
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Quest For Gold – Episode 10: Chicago Triple Jumper Tori Franklin: “Happiness is Not Something Acquired through Outside Sources”
In this week’s episode of Quest for Gold, the USA Women’s Basketball team has been taking Puerto Rico by storm. Two area rhythmic gymnasts post solid marks in Azerbaijan. A west suburban triathlete has a big finish in China. There were some huge honors this week for some major female athletes. And we talk with Chicago native, and two time Triple Jump American record holder, Tori Franklin as she prepares for the IAAF World Championships. Her goals may be lofty, […]
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Quest for Gold – Episode 9: Mattie Sasser, an Olympic weightlifter who came from the remote Marshall Islands to Grayslake
In this week’s Quest for Gold: Snow at the Summer Olympics? USA Diving is loading up the moving trucks. Women’s volleyball continues to roll And WGN’s Ryan Burrow talks with Mattie Sasser, a Marshallese Olympic weightlifter hoping to qualify for the Tokyo games for Team USA. She’s been training in Grayslake. Her incredible journey started on a remote island running track. Years later she ended up in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago with gold medal aspirations. The 2020 Summer Games […]
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Quest for Gold – Episode 8: Meet Maggie Shea, sailor from Wilmette, hoping to compete in Tokyo in 2020
In this week’s Quest for Gold, Team USA men’s basketball loses not once, but twice in two days! How did the mens’ beach volleyball duo of Taylor Crabb and Jake Gibb do in Rome? A rhythmic gymnast from Libertyville does well in Portugal. Serena Williams falls short of winning the U.S. Open. And WGN’s Ryan Burrow talks with Maggie Shea, a sailor from Wilmette, hoping to become an Olympian for the first time. The 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo begin […]
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Quest For Gold – Episode 7: Men’s Beach Volleyball: Olympian Phil Dalhausser Taking It ‘One Point At A Time’
Phil Dalhausser, Nick Lucena, Jake Gibb, and Taylor Crabb talk to WGN’s Ryan Burrow about Olympic qualifications after wrapping up the AVP Gold Series Championships in Chicago last weekend.
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Video: The owner of Gurnee Donuts apologizes if your clothes smell like donuts after visiting his store
The owner of Gurnee Donuts apologizes if your clothes smell like donuts after visiting his store. His day starts at midnight or earlier making award-winning donuts for the day ahead. He sticks to the classics for his customer base which, yes, includes local police officers.
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Honoring Lurie Children’s Hospital volunteers this Labor Day
Dozens of volunteers put in hundreds of hours of free labor each week at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Their goal…to ease the burden. Ease the burden on doctors, nurses and support staff working to cure and heal the children. Ease the burden on the families of the kids, who are also trying to juggle work and home life, expenses, and dealing with insurance companies while being with a sick or hurt child. And of course ease the burden on […]
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Quest For Gold – Episode 6: The ‘Next Hope of American Tennis’; USA Basketball Loses Its First Game in 13 Years; Carli Lloyd to the NFL?
USA Basketball loses its first international game since 2006. Next up, the FIBA World Cup. The Bears could use a kicker. How about WNT World Cup winner Carli Lloyd? She kicked a 55 yard field goal this week! She’s considering a career move. Lindsey Vonn is getting hitched. And we spotlight USA Tennis. Brian Clark with US Open Radio fills us in on this year’s tournament in New York, the impressive run by Serena Williams, and the “next hope of American tennis.”
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Quest For Gold: Episode 5 – USA Golf: Who Wants to Play in The Japan Summer Games? Brooks Koepka, Tiger Woods Weigh In
On this week’s episode of Quest for Gold: USA Basketball gets some work in against Australia weeks before the FIBA World Cup, an Aurora gymnast has resigned from the USA Gymnastics Council over allegations of verbal abuse, and we spotlight USA Golf - with the BMW Championship in Medinah last week, WGN's Ryan Burrow asked top ranked men’s golfer Brooks Koepka if he’s got Japan on his mind and Tiger Woods weighs in on his Olympic hopes.
