Lourdes Duarte Biography | Wikipedia
Lourdes Duarte is a well-known American journalist who is currently serving WGN-TV. She serves as an investigative reporter and co-host of WGN News Evening News at 4 pm. She began her journalism career as a freelance reporter for the Spanish television network Telemundo in Chicago.
Later on, she moved on to Metro Networks radio stations WLRN-FM and WTMI-FM in Miami. Afterward, she held a television news job at WHOI-TV in Peoria, WXIN-TV in Indianapolis, and WJBK-TV in Detroit where she launched and hosted the station’s public affairs program, Holy en Dia, which aired monthly on WTTV. Hoy en Dia, the show covered community issues and events and was at the time the only local Spanish programming.
Lourdes Duarte Age | Birthday
Duarte was born to her parents in 1976, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. However, she has not shared any information concerning the exact date and month she was born. Therefore, the date and month she celebrates her birthday are currently under review. We will update you once the information is clear.
Lourdes Duarte Nationality | Ethnicity
Duarte holds American nationality and citizenship. She is of white ethnicity and heritage born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Lourdes Duarte Education
Duarte was in a local high school in her hometown. She moved to DePaul University after graduation from high school. At DePaul University she studied journalism and earned a bachelors’ degree.
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Lourdes Duarte Body Measurement | Height | Weight
Duarte is a woman of average stature. She stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches approximately 1.6m. Drawing from her pictures, she also maintains average body weight. More details concerning her other body measurement and the exact figure of her weight are currently under review. We will update you once the information is clear.
Lourdes Duarte Marriage | Husband | Wedding| Engagement | Daughter
Duarte is happily married to the love of her life and her long-time boyfriend, Matt McGrath who is a Chicago Mayor and Rahm Emanuel’s press secretary. In February 2019, she posted her engagement pictures. The post is accompanied by Lourdes’s love message to her loving boyfriend.
The two lovebirds are blessed with a baby girl. whom she announced through her Twitter account. She shared a picture with her husband and their newborn daughter, Madeline. The baby was born in August 2019 and she celebrates her birthday in August of every year.
Lourdes Duarte Parents | Family
Duarte was born to her Cuban father and mother in Chicago, Illinois. She also spent part of her childhood in Puerto Rico as well as in Florida. Furthermore, she has not mentioned more details concerning parents’ names and occupations to the public. It is also not known whether she has siblings or not. More information concerning this section is currently under review. We will update you once the information is clear.
Lourdes Duarte Net Worth
Duarte is currently serving as a journalism and general assignment reporter at WGN-TV. She has managed to accumulate a decent fortune from her career. She has an estimated net worth of $984,996.
Lourdes Duarte Salary
Duarte is a general assignment reporter at WGN-TV. She managed to take home a decent amount of money every month. Her annual earning is around $66,854.
Lourdes Duarte WGN
Duarte started working for WGN-TV in 2007 as a general assignment reporter. She started anchoring WGN-TV’s weekday newscast WGN News in 2009 at Five with Mark Suppelsa, as well as hosting WGN’s biweekly affairs show Adelante Chicago.
Furthermore, in November 2012, she began delivering news briefs in Spanish on weekday afternoons on WLEY-FM, a Spanish station known as La Ley, alongside midday show host Martin Omar Novela. She moved from afternoon to morning in August 2014, becoming co-host of WGN Morning News alongside Dan Ponce.
Throughout her journalism career has won four Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards for general assignment and investigative reporting. Her first Emmy Award for Hoy en Dia, the public affairs program in Spanish that she launched and hosted in Indianapolis, and won a Society of Professional Journalists Award for Minority Issues Reporting for her work on the show.
In addition, she won Emmy Awards for her work on Adelante Chicago, and for Outstanding Achievement for News Speciality Report/Series-Human Interest, as a reporter on the WGN segment ”Angel of Lower Wacker Drive” in 2014.
Lourdes Duarte Instagram
Duarte has 20.1k Followers on Instagram.
Lourdes Duarte Facebook
Duarte has 48K followers on Facebook.