WGN Radio’s Dave Plier and Dave Schwan talk about the history of the American labor movement and the legacy of comedian Jerry Lewis and what was an annual tradition on Labor Day weekend, the MDA ...

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier and Dave Schwan talk about the history of the American labor movement as well as the legacy of comedian Jerry Lewis and what was an annual tradition on Labor Day weekend, the ...

Television has few traditions as strongly ingrained as the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. Adults who used to watch as kids now introduce their own children to the 21 1/2-hour, star-studded ...

Following a year where ice buckets outshone televised donation campaigns, it appears the telethon’s greatest proponent is seeing that the tides are turning in a new direction. Last week, the Muscular ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The emotional reunion of estranged friends Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stole the show in 1976 on the MDA Labor Day Telethon in Las Vegas. Martin and Lewis were big stars, and their ...

The 44th Annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raised $60.5 million over the Labor Day Weekend. That was short of last years’ record $65 million, but the Muscular Dystrophy Association is calling it “an ...