Overview

• City officials unveiled the Honorary Bob Newhart Way sign on Friday, what would have been his 96th birthday.
• The designation covers a one-block stretch of Sheridan Road from 5800 to 5930 North at Thorndale Avenue in Edgewater.
• Three of Newhart’s four children attended the ceremony outside the condominium building made famous in The Bob Newhart Show’s opening sequence.
• Newhart insisted the 1970s sitcom be set in Chicago, widely credited as the first network comedy to center the city, reflecting his lifelong identification with his hometown.
• The new street honor joins an existing Chicago tribute, a popular Navy Pier sculpture depicting Newhart on his TV psychiatrist’s couch.