ack Taylor, a TV news anchor in Chicago for more than 20 years who helped put WGN-TV near the top of the 10 p.m. news ratings in the 1970s, died of heart failure over the weekend, the station announced Sunday. He was 94. Taylor a former resident of Kildeer and Mundelein as well as Wisconsin also did work for radio stations in Waukegan and at the College of DuPage.
The anchor, who had a seven-decade career in news, led WGN’s nightly news broadcast throughout the 1970s, working alongside Harry Volkman and Jack Brickhouse.