"And there's something kind of marvelous about that, and I can't get over the fact people so generously share that with me," says Skilling, whose last TV forecast is Wednesday. "You know, I never married, this has been my life, and I don't regret it."
A massive crowd is gathered on the Woodstock Square Friday morning to witness an unseasonably warm Groundhog Day prognostication: an early spring.
With the big day landing on a Friday this year, with .
The beloved critter who makes his home in the far Northwest suburb where the classic Bill Murray movie was filmed, has “predicted” an early spring according to official Groundhog Day lore.
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Pennsylvania may have Punxsutawney Phil, but Illinois has its own weather-forecasting rodent: Woodstock Willie, made famous by the movie “Groundhog Day,” which was filmed in Woodstock and released 30 years ago.