[2] A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Zekman spent over a decade as a newspaper reporter before working in television.
[3] Zekman is known for her aggressive investigative work, including the purchase of the Mirage Tavern.
Zekman, along with fellow WBBM personalities, police reporter John Drummond, chief correspondent Jay Levine, and then evening anchor/reporter Lester Holt appeared in the final scenes of the 1993 film The Fugitive, playing themselves.
[4] Zekman began working at WBBM in 1981, and in that time she has investigated Medicare fraud, dangerous cab and bus drivers, tax fraud, and government waste, among many other things.
[8] Her second husband, former Chicago newspaperman Rick Soll, died on April 22, 2016.