Lourdes Duarte Bio
Lourdes Duarte is an American Emmy Award-television journalist. Currently she is an investigative reporter and co-anchor of WGN Evening News at 4pm. Previously, Lourdes was co-anchor of the WGN Morning News and a reporter for WGN News at Nine. Lourdes joined WGN-TV team in September of 2007. She joined as a general assignment reporter for the WGN Midday News, WGN Evening News and WGN News at Nine.
Duarte joined WGN-TV in 2007 as a general assignment reporter. She began anchoring WGN-TV’s weekday newscast WGN News at Five with Mark Suppelsa. She was also hosting WGN’s biweekly public affairs show Adelante Chicago in 2009.
Aside from being an anchor of WGN News at Five, she began delivering news briefs in Spanish on weekday afternoons on WLEY-FM. This is a Spanish station known as La Ley, she delivered alongside midday show host Martin Omar Novela.
Duarte moved from afternoons to mornings in August 2014. She became a co-host of WGN Morning News, alongside Dan Ponce. In accordance to media blogger Robert Feder, the new combination of anchors led to the station’s biggest ratings boost in that time slot.
As a celebration of their Latin roots, Duarte, Ponce, and reporter Ana Beleval in 2014 they starred in telenovela parody series Noticias de mi Corazon, with short episodes appearing on WGN.
Duarte began his career as a freelance reporter for Spanish television network Telemundo in Chicago. She then moved on to Metro Networks radio stations WLRN-FM and WTMI-FM in Miami. After there she landed a television news jobs at WHOI-TV in Peoria, WXIN-TV in Indianapolis and WJBK-TV in Detroit. While in Indianapolis, she launched and hosted the station’s public affairs program, Hoy en Dia, which aired monthly on WTTV.
Lourdes Duarte Age
Duarte is 48 years old as of year 2024. She was born in 1976 Chicago, Illinois, in United States of America. She has not shared her exact date and month when she was born making it difficult to know when she celebrates her birthday. Her zodiac sign is also not known.
Lourdes Duarte Height
Lourdes stands tall at an average height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) and has a moderate height. She has an attractive complexion with brown eyes and blonde hair. Her exact body weight and other body measurements are not known as of now. However this information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Lourdes Duarte Family
Duarte was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, to Cuban parents. Growing up, she also lived in Puerto Rico and Florida. Our efforts to find out more about her family came to no avail since no such information is publicly known including information about her siblings. Hence her parents, and siblings names remains unknow.
Lourdes Duarte Education
Duarte received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from DePaul University. In 2009 she was picked as one of DePaul University’s 14 Under 40 and is on the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Communication.
Lourdes is a four time Emmy Award winner. She also received an Emmy nomination for a story on deportation. She and a WGN photographer where aboard the plane that transported undocumented immigrants to their home country.
Lourdes Duarte Husband
Lourdes is happily married to her lovely husband Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s press secretary, Matt McGrath. The two got engaged in February 2019. In June 2019 in an episode of Noticias de mi Corazon Lourdes announced that she was pregnant. Duarte and McGrath welcomed their baby girl in August 2019. The happy couple got married in Puerto Rico where they met in January 2020.
Lourdes Duarte Salary
Duarte earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500 from her career as an investigative reporter and co-anchor of WGN Evening News at 4pm.
Lourdes Duarte Net worth
Lourdes has an estimated net worth of around $1 million to $5 Million as of year 2023. Her main source of income is her successful career as a television journalist.