"[2] Weisberg was appointed by Mayor Harold Washington to head the city's Office of Event Planning (in the Department of Cultural Affairs) in 1983.
Before her appointment in city government, she helped found the Chicago Cultural Center and Friends of the Park.
Born Lois Porges in Chicago to a lawyer father and homemaker mother on May 6, 1925, she initially pursued an acting career, but soon realized she would rather work behind the scenes.
Jacob became editor of Slate online magazine and co-founded with Gladwell the audio content publisher Pushkin Industries.
[4][5] In a 2009 interview with Chicago Life, she reported not always enjoying the process of fundraising, "Even since I first started with the Shaw celebration in 1956, I've never really liked asking people for money.