What is Tom Skilling?
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Tom Skilling | nickname = | image = Tom Skilling.jpg | caption = Skilling at the 2017 [[Chicago Pride Parade]] | birthname = Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, III | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1952|02|20}} | birth_place = [[Aurora, Illinois]], United States | death_date = | death_place = | education = | occupation = [[Meteorologist|Chief Meteorologist]] | years_active = 1966 – present | title = | family = | spouse = | credits = [[WGN-TV|WGN News]] Meteorologist | agent = }} '''Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, III''' (born February 20, 1952), known on-air as '''Tom Skilling''', is an American television [[meteorology|meteorologist]]. He was born in [[Aurora, Illinois]], but works in [[Chicago]], Illinois. He is chief meteorologist for the weekday on [[WGN-TV]] (channel 9).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/chicago-media-blog/15706586/rain-or-shine-10-year-renewal-keeps-skilling-at-wgn|title=Rain or shine, 10-year renewal keeps Skilling at WGN|work=Time Out Chicago|access-date=October 1, 2015|archive-date=April 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416035311/http://timeoutchicago.com/arts-culture/chicago-media-blog/15706586/rain-or-shine-10-year-renewal-keeps-skilling-at-wgn|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is the highest paid local broadcast meteorologist in the United States.<ref>[http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2008/The-Cult-of-Tom/] Chicago Magazine - The Cult of Tom.</ref> He also writes the daily weather column in the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.asktom.org/index.htm Skilling's Fermilab Seminar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208121308/http://www.asktom.org/index.htm |date=2012-02-08 }} * {{cite web| url = http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/ | title = WGN Weather Weblog |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121124015258/http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/ |archive