{"id":197912,"date":"2010-01-19T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=11117"},"modified":"2010-01-19T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:15:07","slug":"services-set-for-cltv-reporter-carlos-hernandez-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/197912","title":{"rendered":"Services set for CLTV reporter Carlos Hernandez Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Services for Carlos Hernandez Gomez, a political reporter for CLTV who died Sunday at age 36 after a yearlong bout with cancer, were set for Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

Visitation will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Drake & Son Funeral Home, 5303 N. Western Ave.,\u00a0 Chicago. Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Thursday in St. John Cantius Catholic Church, 825 N. Carpenter St., Chicago. <\/span><\/p>\n

His career began at the Chicago Reporter and included a stint at WBEZ-FM before CLTV. Mr. Hernandez Gomez was widely regarded for the depth of his knowledge and the incisiveness of his reporting.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama on Monday issued a statement recalling that he was a state senator when he first got to know Mr. Hernandez Gomez.<\/p>\n

“He was a throwback in the style of Chicago’s storied political reporters. He loved Chicago, and he relentlessly sought to tell its story with the commitment to truth and the insatiable curiosity that any good reporter has to have,” Obama said.<\/p>\n

“I quickly learned that when you saw his sharp fedora in a crowd, hard questions were coming. But Carlos always played it straight. And I always enjoyed our interactions in Springfield, Chicago or on the campaign trail.”<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the chamber’s 2nd ranking Democrat, called Mr. Hernandez Gomez “the kind of person that’s a great credit to the profession.”<\/p>\n

He “did a great job for people across Chicagoland and America to understand the real issues we face,” Durbin said.<\/p>\n

Gov. Pat Quinn remembered Mr. Hernandez Gomez as “a man of great humor and commitment and dedication. So, losing Carlos is a loss for everybody in Illinois and our country.”<\/p>\n

–<\/em>Staff report<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Services for Carlos Hernandez Gomez, a political reporter for CLTV who died Sunday at age 36 after a yearlong bout with cancer, were set for Wednesday and Thursday. Visitation will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Drake & Son Funeral Home, 5303 N. Western Ave.,\u00a0 Chicago. Mass will be celebrated at 11 […]<\/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-197912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197912","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=197912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}