Lou Canellis Bio and Wiki
Lou Canellis is an American journalist who serves as a sports anchor every day on WFLD-TV FOX 32 News at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m in Chicago Illinois. Previously, he served at ESPN as a play by play broadcaster.
Lou Canellis Age | When was Lou Canellis born?
Canellis is 40 years old as of 2023. He was born on February 19, 1982, in Oak Lawn, United States of America. He celebrates her birthday on the 19th of February.
Lou Canellis Education
Canellis went to the College of Arts and Sciences and attended Loyola’s radio and television communication program. He reported sports during the newscasts at WLUW Radio for nine semesters.
Lou graduated from Chicago University of Loyola in January 1987 and followed the Bulls in the 1990s for eight years.
Lou Canellis Family| Parents| Siblings
Canellis’s information regarding his parents and siblings is not available. He has been able to keep his family background very private. It will be updated once her information is confirmed.
Lou Canellis Height| How tall is Lou Fox News?
Canellis stands at an average height. However, details regarding his height and other body measurements are still under review.
Lou Canellis Restaurant
Avli Taverna is an upscale Greek eatery in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. They have brought Chicago a Greek dining renaissance, offering a menu with fresh twists on classic dishes.
Chef Louie Alexakis and Lou are partners of the restaurant. Chef Alexakis has been in the hospitality business since he was a child working at his family’s various restaurants across the city.
Lou Canellis is a Chicago sports legend since he started broadcasting over 30 years ago. His love of food has led him into the restaurant business for the past several years. You can find him in his restaurants whenever he isn’t working at Fox Sports or doing the Bears games.
Lou Canellis Salary
Canellis works as a sportscaster for FOX News. As per SimplyHired, FOX News anchor earns the average salary of $63,455 annually. Given his stint at FOX 32 News as a sports anchor since 2010, Lou is likely collecting some lucrative amount of payrolls.
Lou Canellis Net Worth
His primary source of net worth is from his media career. He is a journalist and a sportscaster who has devoted his life to his work. However, information about his net worth is still under review, but it will be updated once his information is available.
Lou Canellis Wife | Marriage
Lou is a married man. He is married to Monica Canellis since 2005. The two got married in the presence of their close friends and relatives at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Chicago.
His wife Monica worked in the real estate business and served as an executive assistant in the music industry. She was referred to as a social planner, and the Chicago native returned to her hometown from Atlanta setting the groundwork for real estate. The real estate developer has involved herself in social and charitable organizations like ‘Stimulus Social Club.’ With Lou and her daughter Gia, the family-of-three are residing in the Museum Park area of the South Loop.
Lou Canellis Baby
FOX News sports anchor Lou and his wife Monica are trying to support the childless couple who have no children. The couple realized Monica was unable to bear her biological child on her own and as a woman, she became emotional in accepting her fate. When they went to the hospital in the hope of adopting a child, they were recommended by fertility doctors for surrogacy, not adoption.
Since they learned about surrogacy and did gestational surrogacy, the couple had a sense of relief. The surrogate mother used a donor egg and Lou’s sperm to get ready to bear the baby. In May 2018, with the help of a gestational surrogate, Lou and his wife Monica welcomed their baby girl named Georgia Kailani Canellis. They like to call their bundle of joy with a name of ‘Gia.’
Lou Canellis WFLD Fox32
Canellis is an American journalist who is currently serving as a sports anchor every day on WFLD-TV FOX 32 News at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m in Chicago, Illinois. Previously, he served at ESPN as a play by play broadcaster.
The veteran of Chicago’s broadcasting scene, Lou is the host of Bears GameDay Live. Since his childhood, he was a sports enthusiast, and following his graduation from Loyola, he started anchoring sports in Chicago.
His fellow WFLD-TV on-air personalities include,
- Bill Bellis
- Michelle Alegria
- Natalie Bomke
- Mike Caplan
- Kaitlin Cody
- Tia Ewing
- Mike Flannery
- Brittany Garzillo
- Jake Hamilton
- Dawn Hasbrouck
- Terrence Lee
- Joanie Lum
- Elizabeth Matthews
- Corey McPherrin
- Anita Padilla
- Brittney Payton
- Sylvia Perez
- Dane Placko
- Anthony Ponce
- Scott Schneider
- Mark Strehl
- Roseanne Tellez
- Bill Zwecker