Evanston, Illinois
CHICAGO (AP) – Longtime Chicago sportscaster Tim Weigel died Sunday morning at his home in Evanston, Ill. He was 56. Weigel died at 5:20 a.m. Sunday, his son, Rafer Weigel, said. Tim Weigel was diagnosed with the brain tumor last year and had his first surgery on Father's Day last June, after...
Read MoreWhen I moved back to Chicago in 2007, all my local heroes were gone: Harry Caray, Jack Brickhouse, Gene Siskel, and Tim Weigel. He was the best. Thank God for YouTube!
Tom Siebert
November 20, 2024 | Mount Prospect, IL | Friend
my daughter and I met Tim during the Chicago Fest quite a few years ago and took this picture with him in the CNA tent - such a gracious gentleman and a wonderful personality
Betty J Howard
November 10, 2020 | Acquaintance
Sorry for your loss. God Bless!
Paula Halfin
April 14, 2020 | Oak Park, IL
One of the best.
I went to Lake Forest High School with Tim.
A great person and friend.
skip justice
November 20, 2019 | Schaumburg, IL
I want to thank the Weigel family for your father Tim for letting my mother in front of him they both had cancer that year and they both died year
Hill Szlapka
March 01, 2019 | Beaver Dam, WI
Melissa Begley
October 06, 2014 | Chicago, IL
NEVER CARED MUCH FOR SPORTS.....COULDN'T HELP LIKING TIM WEIGEL.....HE WAS OUTGOING AND FUN LOVING FUNNY....MAY HE REST IN PEACE...JIM CORTY
April 19, 2014
Mr Weigel you were and always will be the great you and Joe Daley,Fahey Flynn, Mary Ann Childers...I loved your Weigel Wieners very funny moments sir.It was a blessing to see his son Rafer Weigel announcing sports imagine that...before l heard or seen you I am going to pay tribute to him and his cast with a memorial board this Christmas...2013,always Loved
October 23, 2013
HELLO MY NAME IS SCIENCE...AND I WAS REMEMEBERING MR.TIM WEIGEL WHO COVERED THE SPORTS FOR 30 YEARS:) I WAS THEN ONLY 15 YRS OLD... A TEEN LEARNING A LITTLE ABOUT A GREAT SPORTS ANNOUNCER, I WAS ATTENDING EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH... I WAS,AND I AM STILL PROUD TO SAY, I WOULD WATCH MR.WEIGEL AGAIN IN HISTORY... SO WHEN I HEARD THE NAME RAFER WEIGEL MY LIGHT-BULB CAME ON? MR.WEIGEL'S SON QUOTE ME (IMAGINE THAT)!!!!BEFORE I HEARD OR KNEW HIS SON WAS A SPORTS ANNOUNCER, I HAD BEEN COMTEMPLATING...
October 23, 2013