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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.
March 3, 2017
All decision letters will be sent out from CPS headquarters on Friday, officials said.
March 2, 2017
DNAinfo is keeping track of how Illinois' senators vote on Trump's Cabinet.
February 28, 2017
The proceeds of the sale will be used to finance improvements to the city's 311 system, officials said.
The city's bringing 200 jobs and a retail corridor along with the new fleet facility to 69th Street.
The federal investigation of the Chicago Police was "not scientific," the attorney general said.
February 27, 2017
School will end 20 days early unless more money is found, Chicago Public Schools officials said.
Police Supt. Eddie Johnson acknowledged that the department only solves less than a third of murders.
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