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CBS News
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Longtime CBS Chicago anchorman Walter Jacobson honored with DiFrisco Lifetime Achievement Award
Longtime CBS News Chicago anchorman Walter Jacobson was honored Thursday by the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans. At the 2025 Dante & DiFrisco Awards luncheon Thursday at Galleria Marchetti, 825 W. Erie St., Jacobson won the Dominic DiFirsco Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was established in 2020 to honor the life and legacy of the public relations executive who founded the Dante Awards. Meteorologists Kylee Miller and David Yeomans, reporter Sabrina Franza, digital producer Elyssa Kaufman, vice president of broadcast operations and engineering Tom Schnecke, and executive assistant to the general manager Raleshia Brumfield were all in attendance on behalf of CBS Chicago — and posed for a photo with Jacobson. Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans Meanwhile on Thursday, Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet won the Dante Award at the luncheon. This award is presented to a member of the local news media who the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans deems to have answered Dante Alighieri's call to be "no timid friend to truth." Jacobson, now 87, first joined Channel 2 in 1963 — first as a writer, but soon appearing on air. He worked as a reporter and later political editor for the station before switching to NBC 5 in 1971. In 1973, Jacobson was recruited to return to Channel 2 as an anchor and commentator — working alongside anchorman Bill Kurtis, at the time a CBS News West Coast correspondent who had also previously been an anchor and reporter for CBS Chicago. In what became the most famous era of Channel 2 News, Jacobson sat with Kurtis at a horseshoe-shaped anchor desk in the front of the station's newsroom to read the headlines, while providing his nightly "Perspective" commentary from his own desk in a corner of the newsroom. Jacobson co-anchored Channel 2's 10 p.m. news with Kurtis from 1973 until 1982, with Don Craig from 1982 until 1985, and with Kurtis again from 1985 until 1989. Jacobson also anchored the Channel 2 News at 5 p.m. solo from 1976 to 1986, and co-anchored other afternoon news programs for several years afterward. (l-r) Movie critic Gene Siskel and anchors Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson in the old Channel 2 newsroom at 630 N. McClurg Ct., late 1970s. CBS He also hosted the "Newsmakers" Sunday morning program political roundtable program for several years. Among his work as a reporter for Channel 2, Jacobson remains well-known for his February 1991 "Mean Street Diary" series, in which he spent 48 hours wandering the streets homeless with a hidden camera, and for his May 1992 exclusive interview with John Wayne Gacy. Jacobson switched stations to Fox 32 in 1993, and remained there until 2006. In 2009, Jacobson and Kurtis returned for what was initially to be a one-night reunion on Channel 2's 10 p.m. news, but in August 2010, the acclaimed anchor pair returned on a nightly basis for the station's 6 p.m. news. Kurtis and Jacobson's CBS Chicago encore run continued until February 2013. Jacobson had most recently been providing his "Perspective" commentaries on Chicago's WGN Radio — a role from which he stepped back in March of this year.
USA Today
14-05-2025
- USA Today
Chicago man in ICU after getting run down by SUV on municipal golf course
Chicago man in ICU after getting run down by SUV on municipal golf course A 70-year-old golfer is in intensive care at a Chicago-area hospital after an SUV hit him as he played at a 9-hole municipal golf course just 10 minutes from downtown. The victim was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, and authorities said he was still there on Tuesday. According to a story at CBS Chicago, the incident took place around 5:30 p.m. on Monday evening at Billy Caldwell Golf Course, which is located in the Chicago neighborhood of Edgebrook. Here's more from CBS Chicago:
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Chicago man in ICU after getting run down by SUV on municipal golf course
A 70-year-old golfer is in intensive care at a Chicago-area hospital after an SUV hit him as he played at a 9-hole municipal golf course just 10 minutes from downtown. The victim was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, and authorities said he was still there on Tuesday. According to a story at CBS Chicago, the incident took place around 5:30 p.m. on Monday evening at Billy Caldwell Golf Course, which is located in the Chicago neighborhood of Edgebrook. Here's more from CBS Chicago: Police received reports of the SUV driving erratically through the property, according to a press release. The vehicle entered the course from the main parking lot and drove onto the green. "I look up and there's a car barreling down the fairway of the fourth hole. He drove in through the parking lot area, he was doing laps," witness Larry Kero told NBC Chicago. Kero said the driver of the vehicle was displaying a knife while driving around the golf course. "All of the sudden, the guy busts out a knife, yelling and screaming as he was driving around. It was a good eight-inch knife, he had the knife holding out the window," Kero said. Witnesses reported an employee jumped into another vehicle and chased the man as he drove around the course. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Chicago man in ICU after run down by SUV on municipal golf course
CBS News
05-05-2025
- Health
- CBS News
U.S. climber who survived brain tumor dies trying to scale world's fifth-highest mountain
An American climber died attempting to scale the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, in the Himalayas, his expedition organizer said Monday. It was the second death of this climbing season. Alexander Pancoe, 39, died at Camp 2 of the 27,838-foot mountain Sunday evening. "He had descended after an acclimatization rotation to Camp Three, and was not feeling well," Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal told the AFP news agency. Paudel said that attempts were being made to bring his body down. Pancoe, an accomplished climber and graduate of Northwestern University, had survived a brain tumor when he was younger, CBS Chicago reported. He had completed the Explorer's Grand Slam, a challenge that involves climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents and then skiing to both the North and South Pole. Pancoe survived a near-fatal fall in 2018, when a piece of rock broke off in his hand, and he hit a sharp edge, CBS Chicago reported. He badly injured his leg and suffered frostbite before crawling to get cell service and being airlifted to safety. Pancoe was recently fighting chronic myeloid leukemia and was attempting to climb Makalu to raise funds for the pediatric blood cancer program of the Lurie Children's Hospital, based in Chicago. In 2019, CBS Chicago reported that he dedicated his climb of Mount Everest to Serena Lewis, a teenager with whom he shared a special bond — they had both survived brain tumors thanks to doctors at Lurie Children's Hospital. "It's going to be a huge challenge for me — climbing at altitude is plenty hard without a chronic ailment — but I look forward to rising to the challenge," he said on his website, Peaks of Mind. Summits of Mt. Everest, Mt. Nuptse and Mt. Makalu, seen from summit of Gokyo Ri, at sunrise on Sept. 20, 2019. Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images An Austrian climber died while descending Nepal's Ama Dablam after a successful summit last month, the first death of the summit season. Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and welcomes climbers from around the world every year during the spring and autumn climbing seasons. It has already issued nearly 500 permits for its mountains this season, including 214 for Everest.
CBS News
04-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Steve Lasker, renowned photojournalist who worked for decades with CBS Chicago, dies at 94
Steve Lasker, an award-winning newspaper and television photojournalist who spent 25 years with CBS Chicago, died last week. Lasker passed away on Thursday, May 1. He was 94. Lasker was just 13 years old when he began photographing World War II aircraft at Midway Airport, according to a bio from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Lasker went on to shoot photos for the student newspaper at Hyde Park High School and for the Hyde Park Herald neighborhood paper. As a young man, he also hung out at Chicago firehouses and rode with fire crews on emergency calls, where he took photos and sometimes sold them to insurance companies, his bio noted. On May 25, 1950, Lasker was hanging around at a firehouse when a horrible accident happened on the city's South Side. A Green Hornet Streetcar collided with a gasoline truck at 63rd and State streets, causing a horrific fire that killed 34 people. Lasker was the first photographer on the scene of the accident, and he sold his photos to Life Magazine and WNBQ-TV (now WMAQ-TV), NBC 5, where he was hired to shoot still photos for television newscasts, his bio noted. After five years with NBC 5, Lasker was hired as a press photographer at the Chicago American newspaper. In this role, Lasker was the first photographer on the scene for the tragic fire at Our Lady of Angels Catholic School in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Dec. 1, 1958. The fire claimed the lives of 92 students and three nuns. As noted in his bio, Lasker documented tragedy with several heartbreaking images — including one showing firefighter Richard Scheidt carrying the body of a 10-year-old boy, John Jajkowski, from the scene. Steve Lasker Scott Lasker In 1969, Lasker joined CBS Chicago, WBBM-TV, Channel 2, as a news and documentary cameraman. At Channel 2, Lasker worked in the field for many years on a two-man electronic news gathering team with sound man Bob Gadbois, and his assignments took him around the city, country, and beyond. Lasker spent 27 years at CBS Chicago. His assignments, to name just a very few, included a trip to Poland with Walter Jacobson in the late 70s, a trip to New York with reporter Phil Walters to cover the murder of John Lennon in 1980, and a variety of assignments with Bill Kurtis and covering organized crime and society's seedy underbelly with John Drummond. Lasker also worked at CBS Chicago with the late producer Scott Craig on several award-winning documentary projects. They included, "Oscar Brown is Back in Town," featuring singer and activist Oscar Brown; "No Place Like Home," which tracked the plight of the unhoused in Chicago; and "The Trial of Shoeless Joe Jackson," a dramatic reenactment that brought viewers to the courtroom after the 1919 scandal in which members of the White Sox conspired to throw the World Series. Lasker won several awards for his work with CBS Chicago. Steve Lasker National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences After retiring from CBS Chicago in 1995, Lasker shot photos part-time for the Chicago Tribune and later shot commercial photography. He was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle in 2012. Lasker is survived by his wife of 60 years, Frances; daughters Wendy and Stacy; sons David and Scott, who both followed him into photojournalism; and grandson Jack. A memorial service is planned for Monday.
