About Rafer Weigel

1. Rafer Weigel Rafer Weigel, a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, joining KUSI in November of 2022 was like coming home. Rafer began his television career at KUSI back in 2005. Since then, he has worked in major markets across the country and built a reputation for covering ground-breaking stories. Weigel earned accolades at the St. Louis anchor desk during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and received national notoriety for being the reporter who broke the story that Chicago police would be charging Jussie Smollett with staging a fake hate crime. After leaving KUSI in 2006, Weigel became the lead general assignment reporter at the CBS owned and operated station KOVR-TV in Sacramento where he covered wildfires in Lake Tahoe and numerous elections. In 2008, Weigel moved to Atlanta to become the sports anchor for CNN/HLN’s “The Morning Express with Robin Meade.” Weigel continued his sports career returning to his hometown of Chicago in 2011 as a sports anchor/reporter at ABC 7—the station where his late father, Tim Weigel, an iconic sportscaster ruled the airwaves in the 80’s and 90’s. While following in his father’s footsteps was meaningful, Weigel’s true passion is news. In 2014, he became the evening news anchor at Fox 2, KTVI- TV in St. Louis where he remained for three years. In 2017, Weigel returned to the Windy City as a weekend anchor/reporter and then eventually became the morning news anchor for “Good Day Chicago”. Weigel’s biggest passion is his teenage son with whom he plans to take up surfing, snorkeling and enjoying all of the outdoor events that America’s Finest City has to offer.