Rob Stafford is the news anchor of NBC5 News where he anchors from 6P and 10P. He anchors with Allison Rosati on all three newscasts. On September 2007, he joined the NBC5 News in Chicago as a weekend anchor and reporter. He moved to the main anchor position in July 2009.
Prior to joining NBC 5, Rob was a correspondent for the award-winning NBC newsmagazine, Dateline NBC. He joined NBC News in 1996, Stafford served as a consumer reporter and substitute anchor at WBBM-TV, Chicago.
Before that, he anchored the morning newscast at WFTV-TV in Orlando and founded the station’s award-winning investigative unit. His two-year investigative series on hotel crime in Orlando exposed serious security problems and led to a grand jury investigation.
Stafford also held various anchoring and reporting positions at WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wis. and KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minn. During his career, Stafford has been recognized by local chapters of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
He was honored with four Emmy Awards in the Chicago and Florida markets and received six Emmy nominations as well. Stafford is also the recipient of four Associated Press awards, an Iris Award, and an RTNDA Award.
His Dateline report on hazing in the United States Marine Corps received a national news Emmy in 1997, and he was also nominated for Emmys in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, Stafford received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his Dateline investigation into racial profiling.
Rob Stafford and his wife, Lisa, paid $1.095 million in October for a condominium unit atop a newly built, six-story building in the Near West Side neighborhood, near the West Loop. Stafford, 59, has been with NBC-5 since joining the station in 2007 as a weekend news anchor.
He has been battling amyloidosis, a rare blood disorder, which now is in remission. Last summer, Stafford and his wife sold their five-bedroom, 3,640-square-foot house in Hinsdale for $1.25 million.
They have paid a little less than that for their new condo, which was developed by Belgravia Group and is in a newly constructed, 70-unit building. The Staffords’ unit includes a private roof terrace. “We love living in the West Loop,” Stafford said.
“It’s 10 minutes from work, and two of our children live and work in the city, so we see them all the time. He has all remission now from amyloidosis, doctors who are right around the corner, and they have a huge convenience for him.”
Stafford is the second 10 p.m. news anchor in recent times to pay more than $1 million for a condo. Through a trust, WLS-Ch. 7 10 p.m. anchor Alan Krashesky and his wife, Colleen, paid $1.1 million in late 2016 for a three-bedroom, 2,900-square-foot penthouse condo on the fourth floor of a building in downtown Naperville.
