Anne Maxfield

  Twenty year Chicago radio veteran Anne Maxfield grew up in the Chicago area with a transistor radio ear plug in her ear at all times. Schooled by the likes of Wally Phillips, Larry Lujack and Dick Biondi, Anne always had a passion for the medium of radio as well as sports and rock ‘n roll music.

Inspired to try her hand at programming after receiving a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame, Anne began her radio career at WUSN (US99) in Chicago as a $3.10 an hour Jill-of-all-trades. Learning the radio business from the ground up, Anne cut her teeth in the country radio format performing off and on-air jobs until she had worked her way up to producer/side-kick to then WUSN morning man Deano Day.

When WUSN was sold and most of the on-air staff summarily fired, Anne caught on with the Star format at WJJD where she hosted her own night-time show. Then came a three year traffic stint at all-news WBBM-AM where Anne did morning and afternoon drive.

In 1992, then-WGN program director Lorna Gladstone, convinced Anne to leave WBBM to become Bob Collin’s morning drive sidekick. Anne enjoyed her time as sidekick with Bob Collins as well as Spike O’Dell and later Steve Cochran, among many others.

Mike North spirited Anne away from WGN to become the news anchor/co-host for his new morning show that debuted in the late summer of 2004. The show airs Mondays through Fridays from 6:00 am –10:00 am.

Anne enjoys doing charity work for the Salvation Army, Friends for Therapeutic Equine Activities (an organization that trains horses to work with the disabled), and the Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Woman’s Board. She also loves to read, write and garden. Both music and sports remain two of her great passions.