Rob Elgas
Anchor/Reporter
Updated 11:35 PM CST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
Rob Elgas joined NBC5 News in August 2002 as a general assignment reporter. He now co-anchors NBC5's morning newscasts along with Zoraida Sambolin.
A two time Emmy winner, Elgas came to NBC5 from the ABC affiliate in El Paso, Texas, where he anchored their two-hour morning program.
Prior to the El Paso station, Elgas worked for the NBC affiliate in Champaign. His duties included photographer ('one-man band'), reporter, fill-in anchor, and even weather forecaster.
In 2005, Elgas won a regional Emmy for a feature story called "Stuck in the Middle". Elgas also covered the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy along with fellow anchor Paula Faris. Rob and Paula, along with a top notch production staff, won a regional Emmy in 2006 for "Hometown Hopefuls", a half hour program about Chicago’s winter Olympic athletes.
Born in Arlington Heights and raised in Crystal Lake, Rob calls Chicago home. He loves sports, and you might find him on the hardwood playing hoops, or watching any Chicago team during the year.
Rob attended the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, studying broadcast journalism and agricultural communications. His family now lives in southern Texas, near the border of Mexico -- a place Rob calls his home away from home.
First Published: Oct 1, 2008 9:47 AM CST
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