Veteran TV Reporter Elizabeth Brackett's Funeral Arrangements Set

CHICAGO, IL — Funeral arrangements have been scheduled for longtime "Chicago Tonight" host and correspondent Elizabeth Brackett. She died Sunday following an apparent bicycle crash days earlier.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 20, at Kenilworth Union Church, 211 Kenilworth Ave., Kenilworth, according to WTTW-TV, the station that Brackett at for most of her 40-year broadcast career.

Bracket, 76, suffered at least one broken vertebra in her neck and had been in a coma at Stroger Hospital since being found Wednesday, June 13, on a lakefront path on the South Side. Authorities aren't sure exactly how Brackett was hurt, but her family believe that she fell while riding her bike on a path near 39th Street Beach.

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Along with being a respected veteran broadcaster, Brackett was a champion triathlete who had competed in events around the world since she was 50. Earlier this year, she won an international title in her age group, the latest of five such awards she had earned.

Brackett graduated New Trier High School in Winnetka and received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University. She also was the only woman who competed on IU's diving team at the time.

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Brackett is survived by her husband, Peter Martinez; her daughter, Ilsa Wallich; her son, Jon Brackett; her stepchildren Lisa Nuzzo, Stephanie Martinez, Jonathan Martinez, Matthew Martinez; and her sisters; Ellen Rieger and Jill Swisher.

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Elizabeth Brackett in 2012 (Screen shot from video via Elizabeth Brackett | YouTube)