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What ever happened to Flying Officer Jim Cavanaugh of the
Chicago Police Department?
I don't think it was in a helicopter crash, since I know of only
two Chicago officers who died in crashes:
- ("Flying Officer") Leonard Baldy, May 2, 1960 (while doing WGN traffic reports,
details here)
- ("Eye in the Sky") Irv Hayden, October 10, 1971 (in a WGN helicopter crash,
details here)
Chicago closed their two-helicopter operation in 1979.
Updates from 2004:
He's alive and well. He's retired and lives with his wife in a suburb
just outside of Chicago.
and
As a committed 40+ year listener of WGN, I believe Cavanaugh is still
doing traffic on occasion but is more or less a sub. I went to Gordon Tech
High School in Chicago, just across the Chicago river from the (then)
WGN radio studios, and because of my interest in radio (I later owned
4 stations) I remember WELL the days that both Baldy died (in 1960) and
Hayden - in 1971. Hayden lived across the street from a music teacher
of mine (I believe on Moody or Marmora St.).
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