Marcus Leshock

Chicago

Feature Reporter and Trending News Anchor at WGN-TV (Chicago, IL)

@WGNMorningNews Feature Reporter | @WGNTV Roller Coaster Bureau Chief | Co-host of “What A Day!” 2-3pm on WGN+ | Instructor NU @MedillSchool | NBC-HWC 💪

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Master of languages: Yuji Beleza on how he learned to speak dozens of languages

1 day ago | wgntv.com | Marcus Leshock |Larry Potash |Robin Baumgarten

Yuji Beleza is a 27 year old Japanese-Irish polyglot – someone who speaks dozens of languages. He’s going viral for his spontaneous street interviews, where he surprises people with greetings in their native language — whether it’s Turkish, Swahili, Kurdish, Kazakh or Zulu. Beleza has language-learning platform called Zero to Fluent, designed to make learning a new language more fun and approachable. Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too.
The Dancing Twins known as ‘Twinsauce’

1 week ago | wgntv.com | Marcus Leshock |Larry Potash |Robin Baumgarten

Paul and Luke Harwerth go by “Twinsauce” on social media with more than one million followers. They are identical twin dancers who live in Kansas City, Missouri. They specialize in short-form dance content, lifestyle and travel videos.
Coaster fans react to the record-breaking Wrath Of Rakshasa at Six Flags Great America

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Marcus Leshock

Coaster fans react to the record-breaking Wrath Of Rakshasa at Six Flags Great AmericaFri, May 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM UTCCoaster fans react to the record-breaking Wrath Of Rakshasa at Six Flags Great AmericaSix Flags Great America showed off their new roller coaster for the media yesterday. Wrath of Rakshasa is a record-breaking dive coaster, with the steepest drop and most inversions on any coaster of its kind. Yesterday was all about getting the media on board.
Coaster fans react to the record-breaking Wrath Of Rakshasa at Six Flags Great America

2 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Marcus Leshock

Posted: May 23, 2025 / 08:23 AM CDT Updated: May 23, 2025 / 08:55 AM CDT Six Flags Great America showed off their new roller coaster for the media yesterday. Wrath of Rakshasa is a record-breaking dive coaster, with the steepest drop and most inversions on any coaster of its kind. Yesterday was all about getting the media on board.
Friday Favorites: Universal Epic Universe

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Marcus Leshock

CHICAGO — WGN’s Marcus Leshock just made his way back to the Windy City after a research trip to the all-new Universal Epic Universe theme park in Orlando, Florida, this week and he has plenty to share. The park officially opened to the public this week and Marcus was among some of the first to get a look at the attractions.
Great America's newest coaster, Wrath of Rakshasa, opens May 31. Watch Marcus Leshock and Brhett Vickery ride it

2 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Michael Johnson |Marcus Leshock |Brhett Vickery

GURNEE, Ill. — Wrath of Rakshasa, the newest roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in north suburban Gurnee, will open to the public on Saturday, May 31, the park announced Thursday morning. Great America’s parent company, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, announced last August that the ride, a record-breaking dive coaster, would be added to the park for the 2025 season. But no specific opening date had been announced until now.
Watch the new ‘tilt coaster’ Siren’s Curse take its first test at Cedar Point

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Marcus Leshock

We all know that feeling on a roller coaster. You climb the lift hill, come over the top, and hit that first drop. This one is different. Very different. Siren’s Curse is Cedar Point’s new “tilt coaster.” The Sandusky, Ohio amusement park showed off more footage of the construction site yesterday, including our first official look at that “tilt” in action. Unlike a traditional roller coaster, Siren’s Curse will take you to the top of the first drop – and you’ll stop there.
Watch the new ‘tilt coaster’ Siren’s Curse take its first test at Cedar Point

3 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Marcus Leshock

Posted: May 16, 2025 / 06:18 AM CDT Updated: May 16, 2025 / 06:19 AM CDT We all know that feeling on a roller coaster. You climb the lift hill, come over the top, and hit that first drop. This one is different. Very different.
Reflex Test Championship

3 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Larry Potash |Morgan Kolkmeyer |Marcus Leshock |Brhett Vickery

The three finalists go head to head in a reflex test for the ages. Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. Sign up and subscribe to our WGN Morning News newsletter.
Evanston man has had 3 different cars smashed by trees on his block

3 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Marisa Rodriguez |Marcus Leshock

EVANSTON, Ill. — A man has had three vehicles smashed by different trees on his block in Evanston. Tim Heuer says it started back in 2014 when a tree limb dropped on his wife’s car. The vehicle was repaired, and Heuer’s wife still drives it. That tree was eventually removed. Then in 2016, a second tree dropped a limb that totaled his blue Honda CRV, that he had for about one month.