Last Updated on December 30, 2025 by Editor
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Tracy Butler Biography
Tracy Butler is an American working in the field of meteorology as a meteorologist for ABC7 Chicago News This Morning and ABC7’s 11 a.m. newscasts. Before joining the station in 1994, she worked for WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia, as the morning and noon weather anchor from 1992 to 1993.
Tracy Butler Height
Butler stands at a rough height of 5 feet and 6 inches.
Tracy Butler Age
Butler was born on March 20th, but has not shared her year of birth; thus, her age is not known. She annually celebrates her birthday on March 20th, as suggested by her Facebook post on March 20, 2015, captioned “Friday greetings, friends. This is what I woke up to this morning for my birthday…”
Personal Life
Tracy Butler Relatives and Family
Butler’s parents got married on August 19, 1961, as suggested by her Facebook post on August 19, 2017, captioned Here’s wishing the KING and QUEEN of hearts (otherwise known as my parents) a VERY Happy Anniversary! 56 years today!!!!” Butler has two brothers, David and Mark.
Tracy Butler Spouse and Children
Butler tied the knot with Michael on September 5, 1992, as suggested by her Facebook post on September 5, 2017, captioned “25 years later, we are still walking….together. Happy Anniversary to us 🙂..” The duo met through a blind date arranged by her cousin in 1990.
The couple has two daughters named Cassandra and Crystina and two dogs, Sky and Maggie. Cassandra was born in 2002 and is 23 years old. Crystina was born in 2005 and is 20 years old. During her free time, she enjoys going to charity golf outings.
Tracy Butler Education
Butler received her high school diploma before enrolling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She later graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Broadcasting. In 2001, she earned her Meteorology Certificate from Mississippi State University.
Professional Life
Tracy Butler Career
Butler works as a meteorologist for ABC7 Chicago News This Morning, a role she has held since 1995. In addition, she is a meteorologist on ABC7’s 11 a.m. newscasts and provides weather updates for ESPN 1000 Radio.
Butler is a devoted fan of ABC Daytime’s General Hospital and occasionally co-hosts “Soap Chat” with fellow enthusiast Diane Pathieu, whose reports appear on Facebook. She is the longest-tenured female meteorologist in Chicago and serves as a member of the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society.
Butler annually contributes to the live coverage of the Chicago Auto Show in February. Additionally, she plays at the Chicago Automobile Trade Association’s annual golf outings. She had previously co-hosted the Chicago Air & Water Show and All-Star Shootout Golf Show.
Butler previously worked as the co-host of the Chicago Air & Water Show and All-Star Shootout Golf Show on ABC 7. In addition, she filled in for weather actors Spencer Christian and Tony Perkins on ABC’s Good Morning America from 1993 to 2022.
Butler worked at WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia, as the morning and noon weather anchor from 1992 to 1993. Prior to this, she served as the chief weather anchor at WFMJ-TV in Youngstown, Ohio, from 1988 to 1991. Her broadcasting career started in 1998 at WTRF-TV in Wheeling, West Virginia, where she was a weathercaster.
Throughout Butler’s career, she has been recognized for her works within and outside her career. In this capacity, the Executive Women’s Golf Association named her Woman of the Year. She also received the Illinois Treasurer’s Public Service Award and was honored by the Illinois Chapter of the MS Society with the Public Education Award in 2012. She and the ABC 7 Weather Team won an Emmy Award for the special “Surviving the Storm” in 2014.
Community Work
Butler loves seeing children express their creativity through drawing and painting and supports their talent via the Weather Sketcher’s Club. In this capacity, she motivates children under the age of 13 to share their weather-related drawings for possible airing on ABC 7 News This Morning.
Butler serves as an MC for numerous charities, including the annual MS Walk for Charity and the Les Turner ALS Walk for Life. Moreover, she is affiliated with the ReClaim 13 charity, which focuses on bringing child sex exploitation to an end and bringing awareness to human trafficking.
Butler and co-director Scott Woodruff started a golf outing called The Duke Classic in 2013 to honor the death of the long-serving ABC 7 cameraman, Michael Dukewich, who died in 2012. The outing has raised almost $100,000 to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the Wounded Warrior Project.
Tracy Butler Net Worth
Butler has garnered a net worth ranging from $1 million to $6 million during her successful career as a meteorologist.
Tracy Butler Salary
Butler receives an approximate annual salary of $110, 000, which she earns working as a meteorologist for ABC 7.
Tracy Butler Breast Cancer
In December 2018, Butler was diagnosed with breast cancer after taking a mammogram, which she had put off for 3 years. She had decided to take a mammogram as her Christmas present, and later received a call on December 14th that she had cancer. She underwent surgery in early 2019 and was later declared “cancer-free.”
Tracy Butler Social Media
Butler has active social media platforms, i.e., Facebook, X(previously Twitter), and Instagram. She has a following of over 70K on Facebook, over 20.2K on Instagram, and over 21.5K on X.
