{"id":14028,"date":"2017-04-28T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=14028"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:08:57","slug":"year-suburbs-lilia-chacon-going-back-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/04\/28\/year-suburbs-lilia-chacon-going-back-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"After year in suburbs, Lilia Chacon going back to Chicago City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Lilia Chacon<\/p><\/div>\n

After spending a year with a Mundelein public relations firm, former television news reporter Lilia Chacon is taking a job with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

Starting Monday, Chacon will join the City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection<\/a> as public information officer. It\u2019s a return to City Hall for Chacon, who spent four years as spokeswoman for former Chicago City Treasurer Stephanie Neely.<\/p>\n

Chacon was a general assignment reporter for more than two decades at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32,<\/a> where she won a Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and six local Emmy Awards. In 2016 she was honored with induction in the Silver Circle of the Chicago\/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

After a brief stint on the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, Chacon joined Mundelein-based GreenMark Public Relation<\/a>s as director of public affairs. She left the firm last month, calling her experience with company founder and president Sue Markgraf \u201ca very productive year.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her new role with the Chicago department that licenses and regulates businesses, Chacon will be working for commissioner Samantha Fields. \u201cWe also do a lot of small business expos helping entrepreneurs launch and succeed, which are familiar to me from working for the treasurer\u2019s office,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Chacon added: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to an exciting new challenge in the middle of everything that happens in Chicago. Just the way I like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, Chacon will serve as emcee of this year\u2019s Silver Circle Awards<\/a> at\u00a0the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel. The event will honor six living broadcast veterans \u2014 Mary Ann Ahern,\u00a0James Angio,\u00a0Steve Baskerville,\u00a0Ron Born,\u00a0Katie Carrillo and\u00a0Sam Ventura \u2014 and three posthumously \u2014 Paul Hogan, Gene Siskel\u00a0and\u00a0Phil Walters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending a year with a Mundelein public relations firm, former television news reporter Lilia Chacon is taking a job with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s administration. Starting Monday, Chacon will join the City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection as public information officer. It\u2019s a return to City Hall for Chacon, who... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14038,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions\/14038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}