18K views · 464 reactions | When we welcome a true A-list celeb...we tend to go a little over the top. Remember Tom Hanks' visit? This day in history, WGN-TV went on the air for the first time. Tonight we'll celebrate with an hour long special at 8:00 on Channel 9. | WGN Morning News | Facebook

10K views · 132 reactions | THROWBACK THURSDAY Check out this commercial, circa 1976, promoting Chicago's "Grant Park Museums." This was found in an old recording of Bozo's Circus. Bozo's Circus: The 1970s premieres this Sunday night at 7 on WGN. | WGN TV | Facebook

75K views · 332 reactions | In this piece from the WGN Archives from Backstory, we take you to June 1986, when a tip from an Indiana farmer lead authorites to discover the bodies of mob boss Anthony Spilotro and his brother Michael. As we would later learn in the Family Secrets trial in 2007, the brothers were murdered in a Bensenville basement before being buried in that Indiana cornfield. All of this was portrayed in the 1995 movie 'Casino.' | WGN TV | Facebook