Fahey Flynn was a radio

Radio

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 and television

Television

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 newscaster

News presenter

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 who spent the majority of his career in Chicago

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. Robert Feder

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 of the Chicago Sun-Times

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described him as "an avuncular Irishman with a jaunty bow tie [and] a twinkle in his eye".

A six-time Emmy winner, Flynn worked in Chicago from 1941 until his death from internal hemorrhaging

Bleeding

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 in 1983 at age 67. From 1953 to 1968, he was an anchor for WBBM-TV

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. He then joined Joel Daly

Joel Daly

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 as co-anchor at WLS-TV

WLS-TV

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, and by 1971 the pair had become Chicago's highest-rated broadcasting team, retaining the lead in Chicago news ratings through 1979.

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