Thursday, March 27, 2008

Local Celebrity Death - Wally Phillips - March 27, 2008

Wally Phillips - March 27, 2008


Here's another passing that doesn't quite make the "Celebrity Death" tally on the righthand toolbar, but he's clearly a Chicago Celebrity, make no doubt about that. You were one of kind, Wally.

Wally Phillips, one of Chicago's most popular and influential radio personalities of all time, has died, he was 83.

Phillips, a Radio Hall of Famer, had been battling Alzheimer¹s disease since 2004. He began his ground-breaking 42-year run (!!!) at WGN in 1956.

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