Paul Konrad
While Chicago has more than its fair share of likeable weather reporters, only one has his own power-polka theme song. Paul Konrad is the seven-time Emmy Award-winning, Polish-American forecaster on WGN Morning News. When local oompah kingpins The Polkaholics appeared on his show they honored him by performing the Paul Konrad Polka: “He is such a happy guy, telling us what’s in the sky / He knows if the rain will come, or if it will be the sun / Hot or cold he’s always right, with degrees in Fahrenheit / He’s our favorite weatherman—who? Paul Konrad!”
WGN9 Morning News, 5:30am-9am
Audience choice:
Tom Skilling, WGN9
Best of Chicago 2011