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Jenny Lizak DJ Profile

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:

Jenny Lizak's Playlists

8/25 - 4pm hour
4:30pm Pegboy Local Surrender Cha-Cha Damore (Quarterstick)
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Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady album artwork 4:28pm Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love? Singles Going Steady (Capitol)
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X - Smoke & Fiction album artwork 4:25pm X Flipside Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum)
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Jorja Smith - Be Right Back album artwork 4:20pm Jorja Smith Addicted Be Right Back (FAMM)
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4:16pm Ben LaMar Gay Local Kunni Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun (International Anthem)
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Girl Ultra - blush album artwork 4:15pm Girl Ultra guapa blush (Big Dada)
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Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed album artwork 4:08pm Kacey Musgraves good wife star-crossed (MCA Nashville/Interscope)
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Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever album artwork 4:04pm Soccer Mommy With U Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)
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4:00pm Beabadoobee Beaches This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
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8/11 - 5pm hour
Filthy Friends - Emerald Valley album artwork 5:57pm Filthy Friends Angels Emerald Valley (Kill Rock Stars)
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Green Day - 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours album artwork 5:52pm Green Day Going To Pasalacqua 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (Lookout)
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Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess album artwork 5:48pm Angel Olsen Whole New Mess Whole New Mess (Jagjaguwar)
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Hand Habits - placeholder album artwork 5:44pm Hand Habits what lovers do placeholder (Saddle Creek)
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Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog album artwork 5:40pm Dr. Dog Fat Dog Dr. Dog (We Buy Gold)
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The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy album artwork 5:35pm The Jesus and Mary Chain Just Like Honey Psychocandy (Blanco y Negro)
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Lush - Lovelife album artwork 5:32pm Lush 500 (Shake Baby Shake) Lovelife (4AD)
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This House is Creaking - This House is Creaking album artwork 5:30pm This House is Creaking Local If You Want Me to Be This House is Creaking (THiC)
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5:26pm Cory Hart Sunglasses at Night First Offense (EMI America)
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Midlake - For the Sake of Bethel Woods album artwork 5:22pm Midlake Exile For the Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO)
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5:18pm Super Furry Animals (Drawing) Rings Around The World Rings Around The World (Epic)
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Wilco - Hot Sun Cool Shroud album artwork 5:15pm Wilco Local Hot Sun Hot Sun Cool Shroud (dBpm)
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Salt-N-Pepa - Blacks 5:09pm Salt-N-Pepa I Like to Party Blacks' Magic (Next Plateau)
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5:07pm Noname Local hold me down (featuring Jimetta Rose & Voices of Creation) Sundial (self-released)
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5:04pm Lava La Rue Push N Shuv STARFACE (Dirty Hit)
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Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - Dirty Radio album artwork 5:00pm Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside Danger Dirty Radio (Partisan)
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8/11 - 4pm hour
Adia Victoria - Beyond The Bloodhounds album artwork 4:58pm Adia Victoria Dead Eyes Beyond The Bloodhounds (Canvasback)
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4:54pm Joe Di Zillo Local Outta the Blue Bringing It Back (self-released)
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Bossacucanova - The Best of Bossacucanova album artwork 4:49pm Bossacucanova Consolação (feat. Silvio Cesar) The Best of Bossacucanova (Six Degrees)
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Joyce Moreno - Cool album artwork 4:45pm Joyce Moreno 'Round Midnight Cool (Far Out)
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Liana Flores - Flower of the Soul album artwork 4:40pm Liana Flores Butterflies (feat. Tim Bernardes) Flower of the Soul (Verve)
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