WFLD anchor Corey McPherrin is retiring from the Chicago Fox owned station after 28 years.
McPherrin said he wants to spend more time with his wife, who works as a daytime producer at Chicago CBS station WBBM.
“We’ve been on this schedule for about six years, where basically we only see one another on the weekends,” said McPherrin. “I just thought that it was time to sort of fix that. She will continue to work, but I’ll be home and be able to see much more of her during the week now.”
McPherrin joined the Fox-owned station in 1995 after working at WBBM. He started as a sports anchor and made the transition to news in 2010. He was promoted to the weekday 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. newscasts in 2017.
“It’s been so wonderful to watch my husband live his dream. Born and raised here, he’s been able to do sports and news in the city he loves, for the people he loves,” his wife Tracy O’Brien told Crain’s Chicago Business. “And now he’s leaving on his own terms and, selfishly, I’m looking forward to spending more with him. He really is a class act, always professional and giving. It really doesn’t get any better. I couldn’t be more proud.”
He started his career in Davenport, Iowa in 1977. He also worked in Quincy, I’ll., New Orleans and Atlanta. Before coming to Chicago in 1991, he was a sportscaster at WABC in New York.