Engineers monitor the reception inside WGN's mobile unit at Illinois Street and the WGN building. The unit was put into operation for the opening of WGN-TV on April 4, 1948. (Hardy Wieting/Chicago ...

A look back at three of WGN's most beloved television series: Bozo's Circus, Garfield Goose and Friends, and Ray Rayner and His Friends. The classic TV trilogy starred Chicago television legends Bob ...

Regarding the op-ed “Ray Rayner was a lasting gift to Chicago’s children” by Michael Peregrine (Jan. 3): Through all the years and all the morning programs, “Ray Rayner and His Friends” was by far the ...

Ray Rayner (born Raymond M. Rahner; July 23, 1919 – January 21, 2004) was an American television presenter, actor and author. He was a staple of Chicago children's television in the 1960s and 1970s on ...

Ray Rayner, the jumpsuit-wearing comedian who engaged generations of Chicago children on his own show and as Oliver O. Oliver on WGN-TV's "Bozo's Circus," died Wednesday of pneumonia in Fort Myers, ...