WGN Radio has abandoned the idea of trying to find a permanent home for its Radio Walk of Fame plaques, according to Roger Feder.
Management announced that they will instead offer the plaques to the inductees themselves.
“While we hoped to find a suitable place to display the plaques when we realized that the honorees would rather be in possession of them, we felt it would be a more fitting tribute to grant their request,” said station vice president and general manager Mary Sandberg Boyle.
The WGN Radio Walk of Fame was created as a promotional gimmick about seven years ago.
The plaques ended up at the station’s transmitter site in a northwest suburb of Chicago following the sale of the station in 2018.
WGN sales promotion coordinator Marlene Wells, who was inducted into the Walk of Fame in 2019, reportedly keeps her plaque in her garden at home.
