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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.
August 12, 2016
Construction started Thursday on the final east-west runway at O'Hare, angering an anti-noise group.
August 11, 2016
All of the burglaries happened near Chopin Park.
The Jefferson Park school will also lose a support staff position, CPS officials said.
The first ride will travel the 606 and the second ride will tour playlots on the Far Northwest Side.
August 10, 2016
One of the men was free on bond at the time for an "eerily similar" 2014 murder case, prosecutors said.
Officer Joseph Cali, 31, of Edison Park, died in May 1975 after being shot by a sniper on the West Side.
No one is in custody in connection with the incident, police said.
The Starbucks at Northwest Highway, Harlem and Devon avenues will include a drive-thru lane.
