One Chicago pro calls Callaway “the conscience of broadcast journalism in this town.” The urbane and famously-well-prepared Callaway was most familiar to locals as the founder and anchor of WTTW-TV’s Chicago Tonight, which he hosted for 15 years. He retired from that in 1999, but soon came back on-camera to front the “Friday Night Show” and interview everybody from former presidents to TV stars. The Sun-Times observes that skilled interviewer Callaway won more than 60 awards, including seven Emmys and a Peabody award. He was also an early parent of radio’s all-news format and the first news director of WBBM (780) when it went all-news in 1968. The formerly hard-living Callaway told the Sun-Times in 2004 that it was a miracle he was alive and still working. He made it to 72, after suffering a heart attack in a store Tuesday evening in Racine, Wisconsin.