Jerry Taft was an American meteorologist and weather presenter who served as chief meteorologist for WLS-TV in Chicago.
11 Facts About Jerry Taft
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Jerry Taft worked for 34 years with WLS, and for 42 years as a broadcast meteorologist in the Chicago media market.
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Jerry Taft eventually obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from that institution in 1969.
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Jerry Taft revealed that he had not initially aspired to be a television meteorologist.
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Jerry Taft worked at KMOL-TV before moving to Chicago.
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Jerry Taft worked for 7 years at WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC affiliate then joined WLS-TV in August 1984.
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Jerry Taft performed radio work, providing weather reports for WMAQ-AM and WLS-AM in the 1980s.
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Jerry Taft finished second to WBBM-TV's Steve Baskerville and ahead of Tom Skilling in a 1997 Chicago Sun-Times reader poll about Chicago meteorologists.
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On December 20,2017, ABC 7 Chicago announced that Jerry Taft would retire in January 2018.
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Jerry Taft was 19 when he married his high school sweetheart; they had their first child not long afterwards.
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Jerry Taft died on July 23,2020, in Chicago, at the age of 77.