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Ken Churilla is a 35+ year journalist with three books to his credit. In addition to The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked (Eckhartz Press), Ken co-authored the Chicago Writer’s Association ‘Book of the Year’ finalist Doin’ The Cruise: A Lifetime in Radio and Rock & Roll (Eckhartz Press) as well as No One Said It Would Be Easy: A Husband’s Journey Through His Wife’s Battle With Breast Cancer (Dunham Books) which achieved Amazon Best Seller Rankings in the Breast Cancer category of #1 (Canada), #3 (Australia), and #7 (USA).

Ken has simultaneously forged a 30-year career in music and media, spending the majority of it in country and rock & roll and writing various media kit biographies for the likes of George Strait, Martina McBride, Kenny Ches ...more

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	The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked by Carl Rosenbaum, Larry Rosenbaum, Ken Churilla (Goodreads Author) 4.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No One Said It Would Be Easy: A Husband's Journey Through His Wife's Battle With Breast Cancer 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doin' The Cruise: Memories From a Lifetime in Radio and Rock & Roll by Ken Churilla (Goodreads Author), Mitch Michaels 4.83 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ken Churilla and 1 other person liked Dave Halas's review of The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked: "Loved this book. Was a quick and easy read and super informative and entertaining. I didn't know the record stores (Hegewisch and Woodmar Records were my stores) but I knew the concerts. Even still, the stories about the stores were cool and being a " Read more of this review »
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Ken Churilla liked Robert Evans's review of The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked: "Fantastic. An 11 out of 10. The interview style format really worked. There was so much awesome history in this book - just bought 3 more for my kids"
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Ken Churilla liked William's review of The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked: "I did not grow up in Chicago, so I didn't have the opportunity to live during this era, but it sure is fascinating. The book walks you through the idea of opening up a store, to growing it into a chain and then becoming Chicago's premier rock promote" Read more of this review »
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Ken Churilla liked James Summaria's review of The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked: "Fun book to read. Flip Side was the place to go for music and concert tickets."
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Ken Churilla rated a book it was amazing The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Read this on a suggestion and thoroughly enjoyed it, which is surprising because memoirs are my typical book-of-choice. As much as I enjoyed the ride that the story took me on, it poked me in the arm a couple of times prompting me to think about my o ...more
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Ken Churilla rated a book it was amazing Heart Life Music: A New York Times Bestselling Memoir from the Beloved Country Music Star by Kenny Chesney	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An amazing view into not only Kenny's career, much of which we have witnessed and have sung along to in real time, but who he is as a person. I especially appreciated the chapter "Da Ponch and Da Ruba Girl" as it really gives a solid look into Kenny' ...more
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Ken Churilla rated a book it was amazing Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses by Peter Wolf (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Freakin' FANTASTIC! A surprising read in that it had very little to do with his life inside of the J. Geils Band but instead, the incredibly interesting actual life he lived outside of his work. Someone called this a five star memoir and they couldn' ...more
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