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Heather Cherone is a reporter/producer covering Chicago's City Hall.
Cherone joined DNAInfo from the Chicago Tribune, where she was part of the team that helped launch TribLocal in the south and west suburbs.
Cherone is also an adjunct professor of journalism at DePaul University.
Born and raised in Edgewater, Cherone graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree.
After college, Cherone moved to California, where she covered politics and local government for the Los Angeles Daily News and the Oakland Tribune.
Cherone and her husband, Michael, are the parents of two girls, Sophia and Julia.
Fun fact: A huge Chicago Bears fan, Cherone knows all the lyrics – and the dance moves – to the 1985 Bears Super Bowl Shuffle.
November 7, 2016
A ban on electioneering inside polling places means you have to leave your "Nasty Woman" shirt at home.
With one more day of early voting to go, 9 percent more ballots have been cast in 2016 than in 2008.
"This is the outcome we all had hoped for," the family of victim Kimberly Allison Bogseth said.
One way or another, the White House will no longer be home to a Chicagoan come Jan. 20.
The three referendums are only advisory, and won't have the force of law, officials said.
November 4, 2016
The parade started at Wrigley Field and ended at Grant Park.
The Blackhawks Stanley Cup rallies in 2010 and 2015 cost $200,000 each.
The same family that dyes the river green on St. Patrick's Day turned it Cubbie blue Friday morning.
