Lifetime Achievement Award <\/a>from the Chicago Headline Club last May.<\/p>\nHere is the text of Graves\u2019 memo to the staff:<\/strong><\/p>\nI have news this morning to share with you regarding Karen Meyer.\u00a0 After 23 years here at ABC 7, Karen has decided to retire.<\/em><\/p>\nI can\u2019t say enough good things about Karen.\u00a0 She has truly blazed a trail, overcoming obstacles to report on issues most television stations ignore. We should all be proud of her body of work.\u00a0 Karen has been honored many times for that work, most recently in May when she received a Lifetime Achievement from the Chicago Headline Club. She\u2019s also won an Emmy Award and garnered honors from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the National Rehabilitation Association and Easter Seals, among others. In 2012, Karen was selected as one of the Chicago Tribune\u2019s \u201cRemarkable Women\u201d and Today\u2019s Chicago Woman magazine recognized Karen as \u201cOne of the 100 Women Who are Making a Difference in Chicago.\u201d Again, so much to be proud of!<\/em><\/p>\nAs many of you know, Karen has been splitting her time between Chicago and Southern California, where her husband Michael and her beloved dogs have been living for the past few years.\u00a0 After her last day on the air, Sunday, September 28, she\u2019ll be heading west to join Michael and enjoy the Palm Springs sunshine and time on the tennis court!<\/em><\/p>\nAfter Karen\u2019s retirement, we\u2019ll continue to air stories focusing on issues important to the disabled community. Hosea Sanders and Sylvia Jones are teaming up to produce a weekly report.<\/em><\/p>\nLet\u2019s all thank Karen for her contributions and wish her the best as she enters this new chapter in her life!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Meyer may be irreplaceable, but WLS-Channel 7 hopes to carry on her mission. After more than two decades as a unique presence in all of local television, Meyer announced Thursday she\u2019s retiring from the ABC-owned station to spend full-time in Southern California with her husband. Her last day on air will be September 28.<\/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\/4803"}],"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=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}