Chicago Radio Legend Judy Markey Dead at 82 After Assisted Suicide in Switzerland
Judy Markey, the longtime co-host of WGN’s “Kathy and Judy Show,” died Friday at a medical-aid-in-dying clinic in Switzerland. She was 82. Markey’s family and co-host have said she chose assisted suicide after a degenerative neurological disorder diagnosed in 2024 began wrecking her body. Kathy O’Malley, her co-host on the Kathy and Judy Show on WGN for two decades, said the pair had talked on