Jenny Lizak first honed her DJ skills on a Fisher Price record player, and later, a Care Bears cassette player. A devotee of the Kermit the Frog philosophy of reporting, she was well recieved for her journalism and music programming amongst both her little sister and their stuffed animals. Several decades later, she studied communication at Loyola University and worked at the college radio station, where she fell in love with radio.
Jenny is one of the original board members of the Chicago Independent Radio Project and has served as Marketing Co-Director, Legislative Director, Vice President, President of the Board. Her favorite CHIRP moment was presenting the case for low power FM radio in Chicago to President Obama's technology advisor in the White House, and helping to successfully lobby for the passage of the Local Community Radio Act.
When she's not CHIRPing, Jenny works in the Cultural, Civic and Literary Engagement Department of the Chicago Public Library. She is an avid volunteer with the American Cancer Society and with her family has raised over $150,000 for cancer research and programs since 2001.
CHIRP relies on your support to pay our bills - Donate to Jenny's personal fundraising page and help her raise money for CHIRP this year!
You can find Jenny's two most recent shows below:
10/13 - 5pm hour
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5:17pm
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The The
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Some Days I Drink My Coffee By the Grave of William Blake
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Ensoulment (earMUSIC)
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Track Notes: Playing Salt Shed Oct 25
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5:11pm
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José James
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What Good Is Love
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Love in a Time of Madness (Blue NOte)
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5:09pm
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Karriem Riggins
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Double Trouble
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Alone Together (Stones Throw)
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5:06pm
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Wiseboy Jeremy
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Co$t of Lyfe (Featuring: Willyynova)
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Pumpkin Seeds (Equity)
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10/13 - 4pm hour
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4:54pm
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Godspeed You Black Emperor!
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PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS
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"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" (Constellation)
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Buy Godspeed You Black Emperor! "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" at Reckless Records
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4:47pm
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Tori Amos
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Winter
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Little Earthquakes (Atlantic)
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4:43pm
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Sarah Williams White
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Nebula
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Unfathomable (First Word)
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4:39pm
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Joan As Police Woman
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Oh Joan
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Lemons, Limes and Orchids (Play It Again Sam)
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4:33pm
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Troubled Hubble Local
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To Be Alive and Alone
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Making Beds in a Burning House (Lookout!)
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Buy Troubled Hubble Making Beds in a Burning House at Reckless Records
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4:30pm
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Paddlefish Local
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Cinecyde
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Spill Me! (High Dive)
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4:26pm
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Nada Surf
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In Front of Me Now
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Moon Mirror (New West)
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4:22pm
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Chris Isaak
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Except the New Girl
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San Francisco Days (Reprise)
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4:18pm
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Adia Victoria
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Please Come Down
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A Southern Gothic (Atlantic)
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4:15pm
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Marian Runk Local
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Don't Take the Bait
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Two Wires and a Spark (self-released)
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4:07pm
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Mary Timony
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The Dream
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Untame the Tiger (Merge)
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4:02pm
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Sea Of Bees
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Test Yourself
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Build a Boat to the Sun (3 Loop Music)
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4:00pm
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Hinds
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The Bed, The Room, The Rain and You
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VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
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10/6 - 5pm hour
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5:56pm
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Mavis Staples Local
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We Shall Not Be Moved
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We'll Never Turn Back (ANTI-)
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Track Notes: Going out to #TheResistance
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Buy Mavis Staples We'll Never Turn Back at Reckless Records
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5:50pm
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Maps
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Fever To Tell (Interscope)
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Buy Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell at Reckless Records
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5:46pm
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Juliana Hatfield
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Such a Beautiful Girl (feat. Matthew Caws)
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How to Walk Away (Ye Old)
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5:43pm
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Beabadoobee
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Further Away
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Fake It Flowers (Dirty HIt)
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5:41pm
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Tamar Berk
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Chicago
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Good Times for a Change (self-released)
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5:35pm
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Portishead
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Hunter
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Third (Mercury)
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5:32pm
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Netherfriends Local
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Baltimore, MD
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50 Songs 50 States (self-released)
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5:28pm
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Beats y Bateria Local
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Dimineata
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Migratum (Stolen Mask)
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5:24pm
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Louise Post
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Guilty
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Sleepwalker (El Camino)
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5:21pm
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Liz Phair Local
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Stratford-On-Guy
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Exile in Guyville (Matador)
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5:17pm
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Oceanator
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Lullaby
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Everything is Love and Death (Polyvinyl)
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Buy Oceanator Everything is Love and Death at Reckless Records
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5:11pm
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Ladyhawk, Radiation City, Chris Farren, Pet Symmetry, Yumi Zouma
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Lonely
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Exquisite Corpse (Polyvinyl)
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Track Notes: by request for Ryan!
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Buy Ladyhawk, Radiation City, Chris Farren, Pet Symmetry, Yumi Zouma Exquisite Corpse at Reckless Records
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5:08pm
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Beth Ditto
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Fire
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Fake Sugar (Virgin)
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