{"id":29150,"date":"2021-03-18T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=29150"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T21:50:33","slug":"bill-campbell-1950-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2021\/03\/18\/bill-campbell-1950-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Campbell 1950-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Bill Campbell<\/p><\/div>\n

Bill Campbell, who served as director of editorials and community services over a 32-year career at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> was best known for his long run as host and producer of the weekly public affairs show \u201cChicagoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The longtime Evanston resident died Wednesday at a Symphony Care Network nursing home in Evanston after a long illness, according to his family. He was 70.<\/p>\n

Friends generated a GoFundMe page<\/a> to help defray medical costs after Campbell suffered a stroke in 2017.<\/p>\n

Born on Chicago\u2019s South Side, Campbell was the son of a chemist father and visual artist mother. After graduating from\u00a0John Marshall Harlan High School and Carleton College in Minnesota, he worked as a staff assistant to the administrative assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and director of communications for the Chicago Urban League.<\/p>\n

He joined ABC 7 in 1978 and spent his\u00a0first 10 years at the station writing and delivering on-air editorials \u2014 expressing the views of station management on critical issues of the day \u2014 which he taped on location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren't just in the studio pontificating them,\u201d Campbell recalled in a 2001 interview with the History Makers.<\/a> \u201cWe were focused on an issue, we went to where the issue occurred, and we used the city as a living set to demonstrate what was going on out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

After serving a nine-month William Benton Fellowship in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Chicago, he returned to ABC 7 in 1989 to find the station was no longer broadcasting editorials. So general manager Joe Ahern offered him the opportunity to host a weekly talk show in \"the spirit and philosophy of the editorials,\" Campbell said.<\/p>\n

The result was \"Chicagoing,\" a Sunday morning staple that aired for 21 years until Campbell retired in 2010. He won multiple Emmy Awards for \"Chicagoing\" and his editorials.<\/p>\n

Campbell later focused on CampbellQuest Ltd., a Chicago-based consulting, coaching and communications firm launched in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Campbell, who served as director of editorials and community services over a 32-year career at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, was best known for his long run as host and producer of the weekly public affairs show \u201cChicagoing.\u201d The longtime Evanston resident died Wednesday at a Symphony Care Network nursing home in Evanston after a long... 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\/29150"}],"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=29150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29167,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions\/29167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}