(Chicago Tribune) — Often, when a person announces his retirement, the “congratulations” follow. But that hasn’t exactly been the case for Michael Flug, the senior archivist with the Chicago Public Library‘s Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection who will retire next month after 21 years of service.
No, most of the people have either grimaced or gone slack-jawed. One friend, a television producer who has relied on Flug for years, said to me, “Lord, I have to sit down.”