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Carlos Hernandez Gomez, a political reporter for CLTV, died today after more than a yearlong bout with cancer. He was 36.<\/p>\nCarlos Hernandez Gomez, a political reporter for CLTV, died today after more than a yearlong bout with cancer. He was 36.<\/p>\n
Mr. Hernandez Gomez was easily recognized for his trademark fedora, thick black glasses, bow ties and machine-gun style of questioning public figures.<\/p>\n
He filled his reports with his vast knowledge of local political characters and the city’s rich political history.<\/p>\n
A vibrant reporter, Mr. Hernandez Gomez covered major national and local stories, but mostly focused on local and state politics. <\/span><\/p>\n He covered the administrations of former Govs. George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich, as well as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Cook County Presidents John and Todd Stroger.<\/p>\n He also covered legal affairs and the courts for CLTV, especially when some of those same politicians or employees of their administrations found themselves charged with crimes.<\/p>\n Before starting at CLTV in 2005, Mr. Hernandez Gomez covered local and national politics for WBEZ-FM, Chicago’s NPR affiliate, and the Chicago Reporter. He also worked in Chicago for Los Angeles’ Spanish language daily, La Opinion.<\/p>\n He attended DePaul University and graduated from Quigley Preparatory Seminary North.<\/p>\n He received the Regional Edward R. Murrow Award in 2004 for Best Sports Reporting for “The Legend of the Billy Goat Curse.”<\/p>\n Mr. Hernandez Gomez was first diagnosed with cancer in December 2008 and fought through numerous procedures, surgeries and chemotherapy. He died Sunday night at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n Survivors include his wife, WGN-TV reporter Randi Belisomo Hernandez.<\/p>\n CLTV General Manager Steve Farber said in a statement:<\/p>\n “Carlos was passionate about his work. He was determined to expose the best and worst of Chicago politics, and dogged in his pursuit of a story.<\/p>\n He fought a courageous battle in the last year and was focused on returning to cover the stories he loved.<\/p>\n Our thoughts are with our colleague — his wife Randi — and their families.”<\/p>\n Services are pending.<\/p>\n –<\/em>John Chase<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n Carlos Hernandez Gomez, a political reporter for CLTV, died today after more than a yearlong bout with cancer. He was 36. Mr. Hernandez Gomez was easily recognized for his trademark fedora, thick black glasses, bow ties and machine-gun style of questioning public figures. He filled his reports with his vast knowledge of local political characters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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