He Died Watching the News
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Legendary former Chicago Anchor Joel Daly has died.
Daly was the longtime Anchor of Windy City blowtorch WLS.
His family says that Daily died around 5:30 a.m. yesterday in his Chicago area home.
His daughter Kelly said that he’d been watching the news on his former station when he passed.
“He watched the news, and he was petting the dog, and that was it,” she said. He had been diagnosed last year with vascular Parkinsonism, a condition that led to mini-strokes, she said.
“Anyone who was paired with him, he connected with as his co-anchor,” said retired WLS Reporter Paul Meincke. “He was an everyman. He listened to people. He was enormously proud of his ability to write and be understood and deliver a message.”
Daly was 86 years old.
