Art Roberts was known as Chicago’s “hip uncle ... Mr. Roberts, 70, a longtime radio disc jockey on WLS-AM 890, died Wednesday, March 6, in Reno, after a stroke. He was one of seven young ...

For every Midwest-born Baby Boomer who ever snuck a transistor radio under the pillow at night to listen to Art Roberts count down the Top Three Most Requested Songs on WLS, put the WCFL Red Ball ...

"Art always had something going; he was a great promoter," Shannon said. Roberts left KB in the early '60s and went to Chicago at WLS-AM, a Top 40 station in one of the biggest markets in the nation.