I was also a White Sox fan years ago (Early Wynn, etc.), went away to college, the Navy, and got back to Champaign to finish college. I couldn’t get the Sox on radio but the Cubs came thru loud and clear. I morphed into a Cubs fan.
And I lived on the SW side.
Gary (now a Reds fan after 32 years in Cincinnati)
SW Sider right here. :-)