Jim Tilmon - Chicago TV newsman, meteorologist, pilot - dies at 86
Posted January 16, 2021 12:00 am
Jim Tilmon, a trusted Chicago TV newsman, meteorologist and pioneering aviator, has died at 86 in Arizona, where he'd retired.
Tilmon died Saturday afternoon, according to Frank Whittaker, station manager of WMAQ-TV, where Tilmon worked for more than 22 years. The Emmy Award-winning broadcaster worked four more years at WTTW-TV.
Tilmon also was one of the nation's first Black commercial airline pilots and the third African American pilot hired by American Airlines, for which he flew for 29 years.
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