Lourdes Duarte

Lourdes Duarte is co-anchor of WGN Evening News at 4pm. Prior to her role on the evening news, Duarte was co-anchor of the WGN Morning News and a reporter for WGN News at Nine. Duarte came to WGN-TV in September of 2007 as a general assignment reporter for the WGN Midday News, WGN Evening News and WGN News at Nine.

Prior to joining WGN-TV, Duarte worked for three years as a reporter and fill-in anchor for WJBK-TV, the Fox affiliate in Detroit, Michigan. She also spent 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 in Spanish for radio station WEDJ-FM. Duarte was a reporter in Peoria at WHOI-TV and at 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.

Duarte is a four time Emmy Award winner. She also received an Emmy nomination for a story on deportation. Duarte and a WGN photographer where aboard the plane that transported undocumented immigrants to their home country.

Duarte also hosts “Adelante Chicago” on WGN. 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.

Duarte received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from DePaul University.