Lourdes Duarte is co-anchor of WGN News at Five weekdays from 5-6pm and host of "Adelante Chicago" bi-weekly Saturdays from 6:30-7am. Lourdes came to WGN-TV in September 2007 as a general assignment reporter for WGN News at Noon and WGN News at Nine.
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 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 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 Journalists Awards for Minority Issues Reporting. Most recently, she won an Emmy Award for her story titled "Unlicensed and Serving."
Lourdes was also picked as one of DePaul University's 14 Under 40 and currently sits on the board of Arden Shore Child and Family Services.
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.
