CHICAGO - If you’re of a certain age, you know who lived in one particular Edgewater condo building – at least on TV in the 1970s.

On Friday, the family of the late comedian Bob Newhart came to visit for a very special ceremony. A one block stretch of Sheridan Road just south of Thorndale is now known as Bob Newhart Way.

What we know:

Three of Newhart’s four children were on hand for the renaming ceremony in the shadow of the Thorndale Beach North condo building. That's the building that was home to Newhart’s psychiatrist character in his iconic 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" set in Chicago.

"It’s very emotional," said his daughter Jennifer Newhart. "I looked at the building. I wasn’t anticipating quite the reaction that I had. Holding back the tears."

Newhart insisted that Chi

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