{"id":7161,"date":"2015-03-16T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2015-03-16T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:58:36","slug":"new-face-drives-traffic-for-good-day-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/03\/16\/new-face-drives-traffic-for-good-day-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"New face drives traffic for \u2018Good Day Chicago\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jenny<\/a>

<\/a> Jenny Milkowski<\/p><\/div>\n

The new face of traffic on \u201cGood Day Chicago\u201d is Jenny Milkowski, a 31-year-old writer, producer, reporter, blogger and actress who describes herself as \u201ca pure-bred Polish chick.\u201d<\/p>\n

But YouTube<\/a> viewers may know her better as Jenny Milk, the name she used as a lifestyle and entertainment host on a couple of sexy video blog series called \u201ci Milk It\u201d<\/a> and \u201cMilkin\u2019 It.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

On Monday, Milkowski began as on-camera traffic reporter at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32<\/a>, which airs from 4:30 to 10 a.m. weekdays. Since October 2013 she has been employed by Total Traffic Network,<\/a> delivering radio traffic reports for several iHeartMedia stations and alternating with two other reporters as unseen traffic voices on \u201cGood Day Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sondra<\/a>

Sondra Solarte<\/p><\/div>\n

The job has been open since January when Fox 32 dropped Sondra Solarte after almost 10 years of solid work at the station. Despite her popularity among viewers and co-workers, Solarte was never shown on camera after she returned from her second maternity leave over the summer because her bosses apparently deemed her not sufficiently telegenic.<\/p>\n

Milkowski, a suburban Chicago native and 2006 broadcast journalism graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, began as a reporter and weather anchor for WJFW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Back home she worked as a production assistant on \u201cThe Jerry Springer Show,\u201d a field producer for Tribune Media CLTV<\/a> and WGN-Channel 9,<\/a> a writer and producer for CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> and a ChicagoNow <\/a>blogger.<\/p>\n

She also studied improv at The Second City and hosted a variety of local productions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve grown up with my family owning a Polish deli in the city, full of mom\u2019s home cooking,\u201d Milkowski said in her 2013 audition <\/a>to host \u201cCheck, Please!\u201d on public\u00a0WTTW-Channel 11.<\/a> \u201cWhat screams Chicago more than a pure-bred Polish chick who loves her pierogies?\u201d<\/p>\n