Meet Alex Quigley and Amy Guth, hosts of ChicagoNow Radio. Find @ChicagoNowRadio on Twitter, Facebook and on the ChicagoNow Radio channel on Vimeo.
Alex Quigley is the host of "ChicagoNow Radio" on News 720 WGN. He also hosts "PrepsPlus Chicago" and serves as assistant program director at the station.
Born in Kankakee and raised in Belvidere, Quigley got an early start on his broadcasting career as morning news anchor for his high school's closed-circuit TV station. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 2000 with a degree in broadcast journalism. While in school he began working at WPGU-FM, working his way up from overnight DJ to evening host and eventually program director. Quigley also served as a student assistant coach for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini football team, handling kickers, punters, and long snappers.
He began working part-time at WKQX-FM while still in college, racking up serious commuting miles on I-57 between Champaign and Chicago. Quigley became the station's full-time late-night host at the age of 22. He left WKQX in 2002 to program now-defunct KRFR-FM in Bakersfield, CA. Returning to Chicago in 2004, Quigley worked in various capacities at WKQX until his departure in 2009. He joined WGN in early 2010.
He lives in Round Lake Beach, where he continues to rack up commuting miles. He plays left field on WGN's 16-inch softball team, loves astronomy, poker, old-school video games, and his daughter Samantha, born in 2006.
He can be found on Twitter at @alexquigley.
Amy Guth is digital news editor for books at Chicago Tribune and co-host of "ChicagoNow Radio" on WGN Radio 720.
She is author of the novel "Three Fallen Women" (2006) and is included in the anthologies "What Happened to us These Last Couple of Years?" and "6S, Vol. 2." Her short fiction piece, "Feet In Socks" was was named among StorySouth's notable stories and was a Million Writers Award nominee.
Guth has spoken at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, the (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest and The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and, in 2007, founded Pilcrow Lit Fest, a local small press literary festival. Guth is a co-host of the Chicago reading series Reading Under The Influence, now in its fifth year.
Previously, she wrote the local literary blog, Chicago Subtext for the Tribune's Chicago Now blog network, where she also served as founding Life and Style community manager. Guth also served as managing editor for literary magazine The Complete Meal, she co-wrote several sketch productions at Second City's training center and other improv venues, including "Anton Chekhov's Bastard Child" which was performed in Chicago from 2002-4. Guth also served as assistant fiction editor at 42 Opus, and founded and curated Chicago's Fixx Reading Series.
Find her on Twitter as @amyguth.
