Cheryl Burton

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Cheryl Burton (born December 25, 1962) is a news anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago.

[edit] Education

Cheryl graduated from Chicago's Lindblom College Preparatory High School in 1980. She graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with dual B.S.s in Psychology and Biology.

[edit] Television career

Her broadcasting career began at WGN-TV in Chicago from 1989-1990. In 1990, she was a reporter at WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois. From 1990 to 1992, she was an anchor at KWCH-TV in Wichita, Kansas. Ms. Burton joined WLS-TV in November of 1992 as weekend co-anchor/reporter.

In 2003, she was promoted to 5pm weekday co-anchor and 10pm contributing anchor with Ron Magers and Kathy Brock. In April, 2007, Cheryl was inducted into her High School's hall of fame [1]. She also was a Honey Bear, the now defunct cheerleader squad of the NFL Chicago Bears professional football team. She was married for a time to WLS-TV sports anchor Jim Rose.

On April 23, 2008, Cheryl along with 5 others were injured when a man, believed to be mentally ill struck them by hitting them in the head and face. This happened when Cheryl was on her dinner break in downtown Chicago according to WLS-TV. These were separate attacks and the man, in his 20s was caught and arrested. Charges have been filed against the man.

She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.