Anchor Kathy Brock To Retire From ABC 7 Chicago

CHICAGO, IL — After nearly three decades working as an anchor and journalist for ABC 7 in Chicago, Kathy Brock has announced her retirement. Brock, a co-anchor of ABC 7's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts, will host her last newscast on Wednesday, June 27, the station reported. During her 28 years in Chicago, she "has had a role in every major Chicago news event," ABC 7 stated.

Brock has received the Radio-Television News Directors Association's Edward R Murrow Award and the National Association of Television Program Executives' IRIS Award, among nearly a dozen Chicago and Regional Emmy Awards.

In the ABC 7 report, John Idler, President and General Manager for the station, said, "Kathy Brock has been an essential part of our news team for close to three decades. Her intelligence, integrity and commitment to journalism are unrivaled. We will miss her leadership in the newsroom and wish her all the best."

Brock was hired as the co-anchor of ABC 7 News This Morning in 1990, and also worked as a general assignment reporter for daily newscasts. In 1993, she was promoted to co-anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast.

"WLS represents the best of local television news," Brock said in the ABC 7 report. "I firmly believe there is no equal and recognize what a gift it has been to be part of this team. There is poetry for me in closing out this career sharing the 6 and 10 PM desk with my original partner, Alan Krashesky, who has also become a dear friend...The time just seems right for change; I want to explore other passions and see what life's like off the night shift."

Brock was named to Washington State University's Alumni Hall of Achievement, and has worked with Chicago organizations such as the MS Society of Greater Illinois, the Anti-Defamation League and Deborah's Place, a transition center for homeless women.

Photo: Kathy Brock hosts The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation's 'A Magical Evening Chicago' at Peninsula Hotel on October 22, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images for The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation)