Compared with national talk stations, how did WGN sound more local?

WGN leaned hard into Chicago’s neighborhoods and quirks, so you’d hear about a pothole on Clark Street or a debate over deep-dish vs. thin crust before the national news ever got a word in. Hosts like Spike O’Dell and John Williams would riff on local high school sports scores or a weird zoning board decision, making it feel like they were chatting with you over the backyard fence. National talkers, by contrast, spend half their time on D.C. drama, which is fine, but WGN kept it grounded in the windy city’s daily grind.