Lourdes Duarte
Reporter
WGN-TV News
 Lourdes Duarte is a general assignment reporter for the WGN News at Noon and the WGN News at Nine. She began at WGN-TV in September 2007.
Prior to joining WGN-TV, Lourdes worked for three years as a reporter and fill-in anchor for WJBK-TV, the Fox affiliate in Detroit, Michigan. She also worked for two years as a reporter for WXIN-TV in Indianapolis. While there, she launched and hosted the station's public affairs program, "Hoy en Dia" and anchored daily news cut-ins for radio station WEDJ-FM. Lourdes has also been a reporter in Peoria at WHOI-TV and for Metro Networks in Miami, Florida for radio stations WLRN-FM and WTMI-FM. She got her start here in Chicago, working as a freelance reporter for Telemundo.
Lourdes has won several awards including an Emmy Award for her work on "Hoy en Dia" and Society of Professional Journalist Awards for Minority Issues Reporting. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for her story titled "Unlicensed and Serving."
Lourdes received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from DePaul University and participated in the Spanish Language Journalism Master's program at Florida International University.
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