Jon Hansen

John Williams is on vacation so I’ll be chatting with guest-host Jon Hansen @JonHansenTalks at 11:33 am Chicago time on WGN-AM 720. Listen live link: wgnradio.com/on-air/

Lotta silly kumbaya posts on here (mostly from Cubs fans) trying to talk about respecting each other’s teams and ballparks — let’s just hate each other for 3 days it’s way more fun. We’ve got all of Bears season to be besties let’s just hate each other on crosstown weekends.

@guera58 Roughly 78% of people live in a county that have voted for a Democrat for president in every election for over 20 years.

@guera58 If you stripped out the entire population of Chicago, the rest of Illinois would have still voted for every single democratic presidential candidate since 2004.

@mclain_merriann @ABC No. It’s old because it’s old. That graph ends in 2025. Continue it through this year. Still lower than Biden but use up to date facts to make your point. It’ll land better.

@JonHansenTalks @ABC Its old because inflation has a cumulative effect, we haven't reached peak Biden

BREAKING: Inflation rose for a second consecutive month as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran continued to send gasoline prices surging in April, government data on Tuesday showed. The report matched economists' expectations. Read more: abcnews.link/gHCejyl

@mclain_merriann @ABC At least update the graph to the current numbers. This is old.

@ABC Not everyone has forgotten

@grok @cookingcrazy Ah yes. Owned by grok with the important “per capita” data. Glad you paid for that.

@cookingcrazy @JonHansenTalks Chicago recorded around 1,471 shooting incidents in 2025 (per CPD data), among the highest absolute totals for any U.S. city due to its size. Smaller cities like St. Louis and Memphis have far higher rates per capita. National gun violence declined overall last year.

Tonight is the last pre-8p sunset until August 9th. Tomorrow, Chicago starts 89 nights where the sun is up past 8pm and dusk lasts past 8:30p. While we still gain more daylight incrementally for another 40 days -- these are the glory days, people. Soak it in! Enjoy!

@cookingcrazy Not even close

@JonHansenTalks Most dangerous season in the most dangerous city in the US.

@EdwardVersaii Why’s that

@JonHansenTalks I don;t wanna hear if from the likes of you

In west Michigan we get to have the sun up past 9pm and dusk going from like 9:30-10pm EST is kind of the vibe during the summer for our longitude. Sorry Chicago

Oh wait sorry, this wasn't a post that welcomed any negative vibes in the replies. Thanks.

@RabbiRadagast Well....then keep your kids up if that's important to you? For me, I'm going to enjoy late sunsets.

@JonHansenTalks This means small kids go to bed before dark. Lame

@ledoylinator @05HAWKI I did overnights for a few years. I did like the summer, since I’d sleep roughly 7a-3p, it was so nice getting some sun after waking up instead of almost sunset. To each their own.

@JonHansenTalks @05HAWKI As a night shifter, these are NOT the glory days lol

The number of people on Cubs Twitter trying to change a lineup and barking about low batting averages while the team is in the middle of a 20-3 run is hilarious.

It’s May 8th. The Cubs could finish the final 123 games with a sub-.500 record in those games and they’d still have a good enough record to have qualified for the playoffs in both leagues last year.

Ah the time of year everyone in Chicago seems to forget that every single spring is basically the same weather-wise and varies dramatically in temperatures.

@xmethuselahx @MorganwwMurphy Why don't we just come together and ban it federally? Seems like the best solution at this point.

@MorganwwMurphy I've said this before and I'm going to keep saying it: I do not like extreme gerrymandering, but if the courts allow Virginia, then Katy bar the door, because they have shown us the way.

If purple Virginia can jam through 4 more Democrats by a 2% margin, RUBY RED ALABAMA can send all 7 reps to Congress as Republicans in 2026.

@PoliticsFan10 Yeah, there aren't many political "rules" these days, but that's one I think should be followed. Fair-ish game at the census, its an incendiary mid-cycle, and I will note that dems have proposed a fed ban on gerrymandering. But they need to come up with a bipartisan one.

@JonHansenTalks That helps clarify. Should not have happened in Texas.

It seems like everyone is on the same page, gerrymandering sucks. Both sides have and will keep doing it — there are terrible examples on both sides. So, let’s pass federal laws about it today. Let’s have that vote and have the president sign it. Why not?

@PoliticsFan10 *started this mid-cycle war, meaning between the normal redistricting that happens after the census.

@PoliticsFan10 There's no doubt that Texas started this mid-district war. California and Virginia would not have done what they did had it not been for the president urging Texas to do the mid-district. But blue states gerrymander just like red states at after each census.