announced<\/a> last month he was retiring after more than 40 years as a Chicago weatherman, including the last 34 years at ABC 7. \u201cWhile I still have my health, wit and vitality it\u2019s time to hang out with my real family, assuming they still remember me,\u201d he told colleagues. \u201cAnd I also need to hit the golf course while I still have a single digit handicap.\u201d<\/p>\nHe\u2019ll make his final appearance on ABC 7 January 19.<\/p>\n
No changes were announced in the duties of meteorologists Tracy Butler on weekday mornings and Phil Schwarz on weekend evenings.\u00a0Graves said Mark McGinnis will work weekend mornings when he is available until a permanent replacement is named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the impending retirement of chief meteorologist Jerry Taft, WLS-Channel 7 announced a change in its weather front Friday. Larry Mowry, who has been appearing on the ABC-owned station\u2019s weekend morning newscasts, will move to weekdays, starting January 22. He\u2019ll deliver forecasts on ABC 7\u2019s 4 and 6 p.m. newscasts and on the 7 p.m.... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16544,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions\/16544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}