Rob Hughes
"Rob is a skilled and experienced anchor as well as a versatile reporter who has covered everything from big sports stories to politics," said ABC7's news director at the time.
Hughes joins ABC 7 from Atlanta News First, the CBS station in Atlanta where he first served as weekend morning anchor/reporter and was quickly promoted to weekday morning anchor/reporter. He covered numerous major stories including Georgia's transition from red state to swing state, an Atlanta Braves World Series, and the impact of tropical storm Hurricane Zeta, for which the news team won an Emmy® Award for Best Morning Newscast.
From 2016 to 2020, Hughes served as an anchor/reporter at WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina, after transitioning from the sports anchor desk. Prior to that, he worked as a sports director at WLFI in West Lafayette, Indiana, and began his broadcast career as a sports reporter/anchor at Kansas First News.
He graduated from Purdue University in Indiana with a Bachelor of Science in economics and earned a Master of Arts in sports journalism from Indiana University.
Rob's Stories
Security guard charged in deadly Stone Park club shooting didn't have FOID card; family sues
A lawsuit was filed against a Stone Park nightclub, the security company it uses and the security guard after a fatal shooting.
Pastor buys former liquor store building in hopes to reduce Chatham crime
A local church purchased a former liquor store building, which neighbors say attracted the wrong type of business.
Man who found woman stranded for 6 days after NW Indiana crash speaks out: 'Timing is perfect'
A Northwest Indiana mother of three is fighting to keep her legs after she survived nearly a week in her crashed car. ABC7 spoke Wednesday with the good Samaritan who found her vehicle as he was driving his tractor.
DC plane crash victims honored by Chicago-area figure skaters in Wilmette: 'Skating for them'
The Flight 5342 Memorial Skating performance in Wilmette was organized by the DuPage Figure Skating Club. The event featured many who attended the same Wichita, Kansas camp as the skaters who were lost in the tragedy.
Trump administration plans to fire over 70K employees at Department of Veterans Affairs, memo shows
The Department of Veterans Affairs chief of staff issued an internal memo saying he was working with Elon Musk's "DOGE" to "aggressively" restructure the VA, targeting staffing under 400,000 employees.
Student injured in shooting minutes before classes start at South Side high school: Chicago police
A 15-year-old student was shot outside a Chicago charter high school on the South Side Tuesday morning, Chicago police said.
Man found dead at Glenview home; police say death investigation underway
A man was found death in a north suburban house on Monday, police said.
Construction worker dead, another injured after being electrically shocked in North Lawndale: CPD
A construction worker is dead and another is injured after coming into contact with an electrical current at a West Side construction site on Tuesday morning.
Indiana man killed wife, 3 kids in murder-suicide after she told him about divorce plans: family
Briana Payne's mother says just before she and her daughters were killed, she had told her husband she was planning to file for divorce.
Family, friends gather for visitation of Glenview police officer killed in Barrington crash
Services got underway Thursday for the Glenview police officer killed while on his way to work.