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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.
April 21, 2017
The city does not adequately fund infrastructure repair, Inspector General Joseph Ferguson found.
April 20, 2017
Chicago will have spent $1.5 million from Airbnb fees to help homeless Chicagoans this year.
Federal officials said 100 polling places were not accessible to those in wheelchairs.
April 19, 2017
The City Council could take up the measure again at its meeting May 24.
After the United passenger fiasco, one alderman says it's time to disband the Aviation unit.
A tax on pot could rake in $350 million annually for the state, two legislators from Edgewater said.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel moved this week to toughen the rules after a string of shootings.
Approximately $4 million — generated by the building boom Downtown — is up for grabs.
