Career
He has been the chief investigative correspondent of ABC7 News, World's Largest Store -television, in Chicago since 1990. He has been with ABC7 since April, 1980. Goudie is a frequent provider of news stories and investigations via: a public Facebook page at and a Twitter page at Goudie has reported stories from around the world, and was the first Chicago reporter on the air from New York"s "Ground Zero" following the 9/11 attack.
In 1998, Goudie and his team broke the "Licenses-for-Bribes" investigation which revealed that Illinois commercial drivers" licenses were being sold to hundreds of unqualified truckers.
The television investigation motivated the Federal Bureau of Investigation to send agents undercover in Illinois Secretary of State facilities and led to dozens of federal corruption indictments. The Justice Department’s “Operation: Safe Roads” led all the way to former Governor George Ryan.
lieutenant resulted in the governor ordering a thorough state police overhaul. In 1993, Goudie’s investigation of sexual abuse allegations against the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin resulted in the cardinal"s accuser withdrawing charges.
At age 12, Goudie was a regular on two weekly children"s shows on WXYZ-television in Detroit, Michigan.
(1968-1972). From 1975-1976, he was the news director at the Michigan State Network, the campus radio network serving Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He worked full-time as a radio newsman for both WILS-Radio and WVIC-Radio in Lansing and was a contributor to WXYZ-Radio in Detroit.
Goudie also worked at WSOC-television, the American Broadcasting Company affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was a main sports anchor (1978-1980) and general assignment reporter (1977-1978).
Goudie holds a degree from Michigan State University. They have five children. Brittany Goudie, one of Chuck and Teri"s children, started her career at HARPO Studios in Chicago working on The Oprah Winfrey Show, music management at Nashville-based Starstruck Entertainment, and now as producer of SiriusXM The Highway morning show with Storme Warren.
