WGN Morning News

@WGNMorningNews · Chicago ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ · joined 29 Oct 2008

WGN Morning News. We're not drunk, we swear. Weekdays 4-10a.

141 757Followers

706Following

120 961Posts total

3.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views524this account12 273median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.37%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.08%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	524	12 273	0.04×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.37%	3.89%	0.09×
Engagement rate	0.08%	1.25%	0.06×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.2K3 Sep

563

484

651

315

126

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.43%3 Sep

0.89%

0.00%

0.15%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes90.9%10 in total

Reposts9.1%1 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Gunfire could be heard throughout a downtown Minneapolis apartment building as police responded to an active shooting Wednesday that left three people dead, including the suspect, and five others wounded, authorities said. Read more: https://t.co/kA0iNgkxij https://t.co/UFmMx694 126 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 A Lebanese man who had been held prisoner in Israel was released Thursday, the first such handover since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war six months ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Lebanese officials said. Read more: https://t.co/muwxxEh2AL h 315 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 UPDATE: Extreme Heat Warning has been lifted for City of Chicago, along with northern and central Cook County. It's still in effect for southern Cook County until 7 p.m. READ MORE: https://t.co/L6KDmpbUiq 651 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.71% from 6.66% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. READ MORE: https://t.co/EgLcNpN9JJ https://t.co/XaWUifxoAp 484 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70. Read more: https://t.co/e5URzULknV https://t.co/vzo3gdByX8 563 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Another September scorcher is in store for Chicagoland today, along with a chance for storms later. When might it finally cool off? @MorganKolkmeyer has the forecast. WATCH: https://t.co/L6KDmpbUiq https://t.co/Eg7cqOi9Hr 1.2K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026