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:
7/21 - 4pm hour
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4:19pm
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John Legend & The Roots
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Humanity (Love The Way It Should Be)
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Wake Up! (Columbia)
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4:14pm
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Common & Pete Rock Local
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Chi-Town Do It
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The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)
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4:07pm
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Fauvely Local
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Dead Green Snake
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Alligator Rodeo (self-released)
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4:04pm
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Tess Parks
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Suzy & Sally's Eternal Return
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And Those Who Were Seen Dancing (Fuzz Club)
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4:00pm
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Cassandra Jenkins
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Clams Casino
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My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
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7/14 - 5pm hour
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5:57pm
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Say She She
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NORMA
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Silver (Colemine/Karma Chief)
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Track Notes: Going out to #TheResistance
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5:51pm
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CHAI
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I'm me
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PUNK (Burger)
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5:49pm
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Mandy Local
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Now That I'm a Woman
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Lawn Girl (Exploding in Sound)
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5:43pm
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Smoking Popes Local
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If You Don't Care
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Stay Down (Appeal)
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5:40pm
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Cheap Trick Local
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Oh, Candy
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Cheap Trick (Epic)
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5:36pm
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Redd Kross
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Good Times Propaganda Band
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Redd Kross (In the Red)
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5:30pm
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Badly Drawn Boy
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Have You Fed The Fish?
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Have You Fed The Fish? (Artist Direct)
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5:26pm
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Doves
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Pounding
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The Last Broadcast (Capitol)
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5:22pm
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The Folk Implosion
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O.K. to Disconnect
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Walk Thru Me (Joyful Noise)
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Buy The Folk Implosion Walk Thru Me at Reckless Records
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5:16pm
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Ma Rainey
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Prove It On Me
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Ma Rainey (Milestone)
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5:11pm
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Shemekia Copeland Local
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Great Rain
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America's Child (Alligator)
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5:08pm
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The Decemberists
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William Fitzwilliam
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As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (Yabb)
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5:01pm
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MC Lyte
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Cha Cha Cha
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Eyes On This (First Priority)
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7/14 - 4pm hour
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4:58pm
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Noname Local
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hold me down (featuring Jimetta Rose & Voices of Creation)
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Sundial (self-released)
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4:55pm
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NxWorries
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Where I Go (featuring H.E.R.)
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Why Lawd? (Stones Throw)
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4:50pm
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Crowded House
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Pineapple Head
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Together Alone (Capital)
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4:47pm
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Tender Trap
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Fireworks
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Dansette Dansette (Slumberland)
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4:43pm
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The Marias
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Love You Anyway
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submarine (Atlantic)
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4:39pm
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Houses Local
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Endless Spring
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All Night (Lefse)
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4:35pm
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Toro Y Moi
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Sidelines
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Sandhills (Dead Oceans)
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4:31pm
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Washed Out
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Say Goodbye
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Notes from a Quiet Life (Sub Pop)
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4:24pm
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Regina Spektor
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Up the Mountain
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Home, before and after (Sire/Warner)
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4:21pm
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Orla Gartland
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Over Your Head
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Woman on the Internet (New Friends)
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4:17pm
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Angélica Garcia
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Juanita
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Gemelo (Partisan)
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4:13pm
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NE-HI
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Out of Reach
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CHIRP Factory Session 013 (CHIRP)
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Buy NE-HI CHIRP Factory Session 013 at Reckless Records
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