Plainfield
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Sep 16, 2026
Steve KashulHOST
Did you say Oswego
Matt SmithHOST
or Plainfield or neither? Sorry.
Matt SmithHOST
That
Steve KashulHOST
is in Yorkville.
Tracy ButlerCORRESPONDENT
And overall, I still think we'll manage some hints of sun.
Tracy ButlerCORRESPONDENT
69 degrees at O'Hare and Midway, as well as in Plainfield, 66 in McHenry.
Tracy ButlerCORRESPONDENT
We have 66 now in Westville.
Tracy ButlerCORRESPONDENT
Still aiming for those highs in the low to mid 70s this afternoon.
Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
So here we are 1030 at night, after 1030 at night, and it is still in the upper 70s for quite a bit of Cook County.
Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
75 in Plainfield, 71 Merrillville, 69 in Zion, 61 in Lake Geneva, 73 to our south and west in Pontiac.
Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
Your Sunday morning, we're looking at a dry start, partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the low to mid 60s to start the morning and then climbing into the low 70s late morning into the afternoon hours.
Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
So if you have plans first thing on Sunday morning, even later on in the morning, we're going to see some sunshine and have some dry conditions for you.
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Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
Gary's at 75.
Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
Crown Point, Evanston, 74 degrees along with Joliet.
Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
Plainfield, you're at 73 with Rosemont.
Mark McGinnisCORRESPONDENT
On the wider view, we do have a 59 in Lake Geneva, 66 in Huntley and DeKalb, 75 in Remington, and Michigan City is at 70 degrees.
Jim AlstottHOST
I, so I've told this story before that I made the cho- Well, my dad, I w- I was born and raised Methodist.
Jim AlstottHOST
I went to Sharon United Methodist Church in Plainfield, Illinois.
Jim AlstottHOST
Shout out to Sharon United Methodist.
Jim AlstottHOST
Um, but there was a point in time when my dad...
Patti VasquezHOST
So the night before, in the weeks before 9-11, in 2001 i had been hired by the republican party of the whatever uh county is like bowling brook like that whole area um i had been hired to roast the republicans and this is before i'd been done i'd really been doing political humor someone had seen it zanies uh yeah lady are you looking because that looks crazy oh she's looking at the should i move over i can't see anything um But they had hired me to roast the Republican Party of that area, like Bolingbroke, all the suburban, like the mayor, all the electeds.
Patti VasquezHOST
Oh, Plainfield, because they had planted me.
Patti VasquezHOST
Because no one knows who the committee people were, I was supposed to go up and be introduced as the newly elected committee woman of Plainfield, Illinois.
Patti VasquezHOST
And like a bunch of people there.
Patti VasquezHOST
It was actually, I don't know if I've ever told him that I was there.
Chris KrokHOST
But first, we'll do a quick call.
Chris KrokHOST
Let's check in with Ken in Plainfield.
Chris KrokHOST
You're on AM560, The Answer.
Chris KrokHOST
Quickly.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Justice sold and democracy betrayed.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Jim in Plainfield, Illinois.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hey, Jim, what's on your mind today?
Thom HartmannHOST
Hi, Tom.
Maximus OrionGUEST
If you don't get one of the hundred seats, like, fucking, you're probably gonna have to go get a hot dog from the food truck anyway, just fucking, it's not a...
Travis THOST
So I woke up in Plainfield and I thought to myself, I could hit this on the way home.
Travis THOST
But then when you said stand there, I'm out.
Maximus OrionGUEST
We can have a chair just for Travis.
Johnnie PutmanHOST
million in damage,
Steve KingHOST
including the destruction of Plainfield High School.
Johnnie PutmanHOST
Yeah, and this was the day before the school was going to open for the school year.
Steve KingHOST
Fortunately, students were not in the school.
Johnnie PutmanHOST
I mean, they could have taken a hook and pulled me off stage and I would have still burned that accordion because the audience was so there for it.
Johnnie PutmanHOST
And then, of course, I got criticism afterwards.
Johnnie PutmanHOST
Why? After all of the equipment was burned or was destroyed from the tornado when it came through Plainfield, you could have donated that accordion.
Johnnie PutmanHOST
It didn't work.
Rod McCullochGUEST
Uh, I, I do think Democrats have the potential to pick up a couple of votes.
Rod McCullochGUEST
But w- but as I mentioned, uh, those sexual harassment, um, situations, I think the Harry Benton seat in Plain- the Plainfield area is definitely in play.
Rod McCullochGUEST
The candidate for the Republican side ran two years ago and actually got about 44%.
Rod McCullochGUEST
And she didn't, at that, and during that election, she didn't really receive very much support from the House Republicans.
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