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Weekend Edition Monday through Friday at 5 am
Weekend Edition airs on Chicago Public Radio Saturdays at 7am, and Sundays at 8am

Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon and Weekend Edition Sunday with Liane Hansen offers news, analysis and features Saturday mornings. Chicago Public Radio's Dan Bindert hosts local news from Chicago.
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Dan Bindert

Weekend Edition Host, Producer

Each weekend, Dan Bindert’s voice can be heard throughout the morning hours as the local host of Weekend Edition. He also produces occasional music specials and interviews, features and reviews that can be heard on Eight Forty-Eight.

Prior to joining the staff of Chicago Public Radio as a music host and producer in July 2000, Dan hosted jazz and blues programs and produced arts features from 1998-2000 at NPR affiliate WCPN-FM in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dan began his radio career in 1987 as a music and sports announcer at WBSU-FM while studying Communications at SUNY Brockport. In 1989, he began a nine-year stint as an arts producer and music host at NPR affiliate WXXI-AM in Rochester, NY. He was also a music host at WGMC-FM in Rochester, New York, and a news reporter at WCGR-AM/WLKA-FM in Canandaigua, New York.

Dan has written about music and the arts for numerous publications, including Cleveland’s Free Times and Canada’s The Jazz Report. From 1996-98, he served as Music Editor at Rochester, New York’s City Newspaper, where he received a first place national award for “Best Music Criticism” in 1998 from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Originally from Rochester, New York, Dan resides in Hillside, Illinois, with his wife, Yolanda, and son, Carlos.
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