The rumor of the week has Garry Meier, most recently of the late WCKG-FM, making a return to Chicago airwaves on WGN some time in the near future.

Over at the ChicagolandRadioandMedia.com message board, moderator, Larz posted a message this weekend:

I was hoping to have all of the details by today, but I don’t just yet. All I know so far is 2 things:
1. Elton Jim (Turano) will be with him
2. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY — no, not at Smokin’ US 30 Dragstrip — at WGN-AM. Now, this means one of 2 things: Garry & Jim will be on the air for an hour Sunday, or an announcement about Garry’s fill-in slot will come on Sunday. I don’t yet know which.

As of this writing, there still had been no developments in this story.

There has been a persistent, but thus far unfounded rumor, that Garry Meier was under consideration for a slot on WGN when the impending shuffling happens after Spike O’Dell’s retirement at the end of the year.

Meier most recently held down a shift at WCKG shortly before CBS pulled the plug on the FM talker last year. Before that, he had been sidelined since 2004, after the now infamous break-up between himself and Roe Conn on WLS-AM. Meier is perhaps most well-known in Chicago for his long-time patnership with Steve Dahl, which had an ugly ending in 1993.