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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.
July 7, 2017
Shoppers used 42 percent fewer bags to haul home their goods after a 7 cents-per-bag tax was imposed.
July 6, 2017
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the "toll of the manufactured crisis has been too much."
"This program has an economic component but also a moral component," Emanuel says.
No one program is the answer to stopping violence in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said
Construction is set to start in 2018, but the mayor did not say how the facility will be financed.
The notorious towing company could have its license suspended for violating state law.
July 5, 2017
Fifteen Republicans broke away from the governor to end the impasse of more than two years.
July 3, 2017
Trump should be looking to Chicago as a model for mass transit solutions, the mayor said.
