Mike Flannery walked into the newsroom of the Chicago Sun-Times on June 18, 1973, a hopelessly curious and wildly energetic 22-year-old. Now he calls it quits, leaving the political scene where he earned the admiration of colleagues, rivals and viewers.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Newsman Mike Flannery of WFLD-Channel 32 at the FOX studio newsroom in Chicago on June 19, 2023.
That personality was formed in his native Washington D.C., as the son of a man who fought in World War II and paid a heavy price, spending two years in hospital care for injuries from serving in the Pacific. He would die when Flannery was still in high school. Scholarships enabled Flannery to graduate and then enroll in Georgetown University.columnist Mike Royko’s
I met Flannery when I worked for the Daily News and Sun-Times in the late 1970s, when part of my duties included the enviable task of covering the nightclub and tavern scenes. One night out with Flannery, he helped create the name of my alter ego, Dr. Night Life, a weak homage to Royko’s Slats Grobnik.He is smart and inexhaustible, impressing such people as TV’s, who recalled, “I didn’t brush elbows with Flannery very much over the years.
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