Anchors | Top 10 Chicago TV Icon Merri Dee Hospitalized By Andrew Gauthier on May. 16, 2011 - 10:26 AM Merri Dee, who spent nearly 40 years with Chicago’s WGN before stepping away in 2008, was hospitalized over the weekend after she fell ill while speaking at a local church. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Dee, 74, was in ...