[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 7 (Thursday, January 11, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E35]
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  CONGRATULATING WTTW'S CHICAGO TONIGHT: THE WEEK IN REVIEW AND JOEL 
                                WEISMAN

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                           HON. MIKE QUIGLEY

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 11, 2018

  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate WTTW's Emmy-
Award winning series, Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review, on its 40th 
Anniversary. January 19, 2018 will also mark Mr. Joel Weisman's final 
appearance as host and senior editor of the program.
  Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review is the longest running series in 
the history of WTTW and a staple of Chicago news media, representing 
the city's longest running television series with a single host or 
anchor. Mr. Weisman has been senior editor since the show's inception.
  Mr. Weisman is a lifelong Chicagoan and has been with WTTW since 
1973, beginning as political editor and commentator on WTTW's nightly 
news program, The Public News Center. When The Week in Review premiered 
on January 20, 1978, it served as a 30-minute conversation series. 
Throughout its four-decade history, Mr. Weisman welcomed hundreds of 
reporters to his rotating four-person weekly panel long before this 
format became commonplace in national TV programming. At. Mr. Weisman's 
insistence, the panelists were nonpartisan and diverse, first 
representing print and broadcast, and later, digital media.
  In 2008, he was deservedly inducted in the Silver Circle of the 
Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and 
Sciences.
  Mr. Speaker, I applaud Mr. Joel Weisman for his tireless dedication 
to WTTW's Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review throughout his long and 
storied career delivering vital information--and entertainment--to 
Chicagoans. I urge my colleagues to join me in congratulating Mr. 
Weisman on his invaluable contribution to WTTW and our community's 
civic dialogue.

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