Lourdes Duarte

Midwest Emmy Award winner Lourdes Duarte is an American television journalist for WGN-TV. She works as an investigative reporter and co-host of the WGN News Evening News at 4 pm. Similarly, she also served for WJBK-TV, the Fox affiliate in Detroit.

What’s her relationship status and personal life behind the camera? Is Lourdes dating someone? Along with her dating affairs, don’t you want to know the figure of Lourdes’s net worth? So, let’s take a peek at Duarte’s biography.

Childhood of Lourdes Duarte

Lourdes Duarte was born in Chicago, Illinois to Cuban parents however there are no exact details about her exact date of birth and early life. Growing up Duarte spent her early days in Puerto Rico and Florida. As she is so private there is no detail regarding her early life. Concerning her nationality, she is an American.

After completing high school, she attended DePaul University and earned a bachelor of arts and communications.

Engaged with Matt McGrath

Coming upto Lourdes’s relationship status, she is a engaged with Matt McGrath. Matt is a press secretary of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. On February 2019, the gorgeous reporter shared a picture with a man kneeling down to her and she suddenly announced that she is engaged to finance. Also, she posts the picture of her and her finance captioning it with:

I can’t say enough good things about him. He’s kind and warm and patient. Simply the BEST! Thank you for spending your days with me. I’m incredibly aware of how lucky I am. Love and Besos to you Matt!!

As of now, she is living a happy life with her finance. On the other hand, it was announced that Duarte was pregnant in June 2019, in an episode of Noticias de mi Corazon. She gave birth to a baby girl in August 2019.

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Past Affairs

Like most of the celebrities, Lourdeiance spellings has maintained a tight guard over her past relationship and there is no information about her personal life circulated in the media.

Despite being a private person, Lourdes loves wishing Valentine’s Day to all her followers, that too with a hope that they either already have or would find someone to smile with. Besides, Duarte shares a good bond with her family and siblings.

Career as a reporter

Lourdes Duarte is co-anchor of WGN Morning News who is currently hosting Adelante Chicago on WGN alongside Jackie Bange. Before that, she also served as a co-anchor of WGN News at 5 as well as a reporter for WGN News at 9.

Likewise, Lourdes is a hardworking reporter for WGN-TV since September of 2007. First, she worked for the WGN Midday News, WGN News at Nine, and WGN Evening News as a reporter. Previously, she also served for WJBK-TV, the Fox affiliate in Detroit, Michigan as a reporter and fill-in anchor for 3 years.

Lourdes began her career as a freelance reporter for Spanish television network Telemundo in Chicago, before moving on to Metro Networks radio stations.

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Awards

The host, Lourdes Duarte has achieved various awards throughout her career. She has won Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards for general assignment four times and has also won the Emmy Awards one for honey en Dia and another for her report on Adelante Chicago.

Similarly, she is also the winner of the Society of Professional Journalists Awards for Minority Issues Reporting.

Net Worth -$1 Million

WGN-Ch, 9 early-morning news anchor, Lourdes Duarte has an estimated net worth around $1 Million as of 2019. According to some sources, Lourdes has an annual salary of $50,000 as the reporter and co-host of WGN-TV. Likewise, she also worked in WJBK-TV, the average salary of the reporter is around $49K – $53K. 

Moreover, Loured has sold her three bedrooms, ranch-style house in Des Plaines for $268,500 in 2014. She brought the house in 2008 paying $300,000.