Jack Taylor, a fixture on Chicago’s airwaves for nearly 70 years, died of heart failure on Feb. 3 in Mequon, Wisconsin. He was 94.
Jack Taylor was a fixture on Chicago’s airwaves across 70 years, appearing both on radio and television including long stints as a newscaster on WGN-Ch. 9 and WCIU-Ch. 26.
Born John Alfred Taylor on a small farm in Redfield, South Dakota, Taylor joined the Army as a 17-year-old and was a mechanic in an Army Jeep pool at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. He was interested in broadcasting and soon transferred to Armed Forces Radio, where he was a staff announcer on KNOX-AM.After that, Taylor studied at the University of Louisville on the GI Bill and worked at radio stations in Louisville and Kansas City before winning an audition for a job in Chicago at WCFL-AM in 1950.
“I’d call that a very strong lineup,” Taylor told the Tribune’s Rick Kogan in 1989. “We were generally No. 2 in the ratings at 10 p.m. We never seemed able to knock Fahey out of the box.” In 1987, Taylor had begun anchoring WCIU-Ch. 26′s midday “The Stock Market Observer” show, and he remained at Channel 26 after leaving WLOO.
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