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TV weather forecaster Jerry Taft sells home
TV weather forecaster Jerry Taft sells home

WLS-Ch. 7 principal meteorologist Jerry Taft has sold his five-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot house in a Lemont gated community for $627,000. The veteran weather forecaster, who has been with Channel 7 since 1984, has been living in a house "just a couple hundred yards away" that he and his wife bought in 2005 for $1.6 million. They decided to hang on to the smaller house, which they bought for $375,000 in 1994, and renovate it. "We put new countertops in, new hardwood floors, a new roof and a new deck, because the house was 20 years old," Taft told Elite Street. "And since the market was bad, there was no point in trying to sell it, so we took our time." ...