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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.
February 10, 2017
Seventy-three percent of the applicants are not white, officials said.
Chris Kennedy announced his challenge of Gov. Bruce Rauner in video Wednesday morning.
The measure was introduced Thursday by State Rep. Robert Martwick (D-Jefferson Park).
February 9, 2017
"If London and Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Toronto can offer this service," the mayor says, we must as well.
Daniel Capuano, 42, of Mount Greenwood died Dec. 14, 2015, in a smoky warehouse fire in South Chicago.
The City Council will consider a measure to cut the fee for operating a food cart in half.
February 8, 2017
CPS officials cut $46M from schools across the city as they scrambled to help fill a $215M budget hole.
Rahm Emanuel's spokesman questioned if Trump's "talk and no action" is just to score political points.
