Lourdes Duarte Bio-Wiki
Lourdes Duarte is a four-time Emmy Award-winning American anchor and reporter working at WGN9 in Chicago, Illinois, as a Weekdays 4 pm News anchor and investigative reporter. She has been part of this network since September 2007.
How old is Lourdes Duarte?
As of 2024, Lourdes is 46 years old. She was born on 14 December 1976 in Chicago, Illinois. Accordingly, she celebrates her birthday on the 14th of December every year and her birth sign is Sagittarius.
Lourdes Duarte’s Parents and Siblings
Duarte was born and raised to Cuban parents in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up, she also stayed in Florida and Puerto Rico. However, Lourdes’ girlhood life, her parents, and siblings’ information are still not revealed.
Lourdes Duarte Education
For her academic qualifications, Lourdes enrolled at DePaul University where he graduated and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication.
Lourdes Duarte Husband and Baby
Duarte is married to Matt McGrath, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s press secretary. The duo got engaged in February 2019 and announced that she was pregnant in an episode of Noticias de mi Corazon in June 2019. She and her husband welcomed their first child, Maddie McGrath in August 2019.
Lourdes Duarte Career
Duarte works at WGN9 in Chicago, Illinois serving as a Weekdays Evening News anchor from 4 pm and investigative reporter. She co-anchors WGN Evening News at 4 pm alongside Ben Bradley. Before her role on the evening news, Lourdes anchored for the WGN Morning News and was a reporter for WGN News at Nine. She joined WGN-TV in September of 2007 serving as a general assignment reporter for the WGN Midday News, WGN Evening News, and WGN News at Nine.
Before coming to WGN-TV, Lourdes worked for 3 years as a fill-in anchor and a reporter for WJBK-TV, the Fox affiliate in Detroit, Michigan. She also spent 2 years as a reporter for WXIN-TV in Indianapolis. While there, she began and hosted the station’s public affairs program, “Hoy en Dia,” and reported daily news cut-ins in Spanish for radio station WEDJ-FM. Lourdes also served as a reporter in Peoria at WHOI-TV and at Metro Networks in Miami, Florida for radio stations WTMI-FM and WLRN-FM. She began her journalism career in Chicago, working as a freelance reporter for Telemundo.
Lourdes is a four-time Emmy Award champion. She also earned an Emmy nomination for a story on deportation. Lourdes and a WGN photographer were aboard the plane that transported undocumented people to their home country. She also hosts “Adelante Chicago” on WGN. In 2009, she was selected as one of DePaul University’s 14 Under 40 and is on the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Communication.
Lourdes Duarte WGN9 News
Duarte works at WGN9 News alongside her fellow reporters, anchors, and meteorologists namely;
- Jenna Barnes
- Dina Bair
- Robin Baumgarten
- Ana Belaval
- Chris Boden
- Tahman Bradley
- Ben Bradley
- Ray Cortopassi
- Julian Crews
- Kelly Davis
- Alyssa Donovan
- Patrick Elwood
- Christine Flores
- Josh Frydman
- Gaynor Hall
- Shannon Halligan
- Jewell Hillery
- Demetrius Ivory
- Erin Ivory
- Mike Janssen
- Lauren Jiggetts
- Sarah Jindra
- Morgan Kolkmeyer
- Paul Konrad
- Marcus Leshock
- Sean Lewis
Lourdes Duarte Height
Duarte has an estimated height of 5 feet 6 inches equaling 1. 68 meters.
Lourdes Duarte Salary
Duarte has an approximate annual salary ranging from $ 93, 445 K to $ 188, 475 K.
Lourdes Duarte’s Net Worth
Duarte’s estimated net worth is $ 1 Million to $ 5 Million. Nevertheless, her profession as an anchor and Investigative reporter is her main source of revenue.
Social Media
You can follow her via Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. Lourdes doesn’t appear to have public TikTok, or Snapchat accounts currently.