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:
3/24 - 5pm hour
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5:53pm
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Zapruder Point Local
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Here Comes The Sun
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Heads Together (self-released)
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5:49pm
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Grandaddy
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Cabin in My Mind
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Blu Wav (Dangerbird)
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5:43pm
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The Mekons Local
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Geeshie
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Ancient & Modern (Bloodshot)
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5:41pm
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Gerald Dowd Local
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Safe And Sound
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Father's Day (self-released)
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5:39pm
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Rachel Drew Local
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When I Dream of You
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Old Sky New (self-released)
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5:33pm
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The Joy Formidable
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I Don't Want To See You Like This
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The Big Roar (Atlantic)
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5:28pm
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Hum Local
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Little Dipper
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You'd Prefer an Astronaut (RCA)
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5:23pm
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Friko Local
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Where We've Been
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Where we've been, Where we go from here (ATO)
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5:16pm
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Gorillaz
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Tarantula
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Cracker Island (Parlophone)
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5:12pm
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Beth Ditto
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Oo La La
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Fake Sugar (Virgin)
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5:09pm
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Brittany Howard
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Prove It to You
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What Now (Island)
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5:02pm
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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
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100 Days, 100 Nights
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100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
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3/24 - 4pm hour
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4:59pm
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Aloe Blacc
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Green Lights
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Good Things (Stones Throw)
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4:55pm
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Orgone
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Lies and Games (featuring Terin Ector)
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Chimera (3 Palm)
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4:48pm
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Van Morrison
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Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
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Saint Dominic's Preview (Warner Bros.)
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4:42pm
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Glen Hansard
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Lucky Man
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Between Two Shores (ANTI-)
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4:39pm
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The James Dean Joint Local
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Walkin' the 606
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Walkin' the 606 (Spacewank)
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4:34pm
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Head of Femur Local
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Percy
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Hysterical Stars (Spin Art)
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4:32pm
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Super Furry Animals
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Do Or Die
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Guerrilla (Flydaddy)
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4:30pm
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Tomato Flower
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Saint
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No (Ramo Local)
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4:22pm
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Broadcast
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come on let's go
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Noise Made By People (Warp)
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4:20pm
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Fievel Is Glauque
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Flaming Swords
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Flaming Swords (Math Interactive)
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4:16pm
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Laetitia Sadier
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Who + What
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Rooting for Love (Drag City)
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4:08pm
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Melenas
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No Puedo Pensar
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Dias Raros (Trouble in Mind)
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4:05pm
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Angel Olsen
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Holding On
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Forever Means EP (Jagjaguwar)
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4:01pm
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Cheer-Accident Local
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Prodigal
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Vacate (Cuneiform)
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3/17 - 5pm hour
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5:57pm
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U2
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
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War (Island)
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Track Notes: Going out to #TheResistance
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5:50pm
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Alkaline Trio Local
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Shake with Me
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Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs (Rise)
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5:46pm
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Fontaines D.C.
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Jackie Down The Line
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Skinty Fia (Partisan)
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5:41pm
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Pillow Queens
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Be By Your Side
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Leave the Light On (Royal Mountain)
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