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Carol Marin
Political reporter
Marin got her start in news in Knoxville, Tennessee, but was born and raised in Chicago (“Garfield and Ashland… I root myself from there forward”) with political ambitions fueled by a supportive parent. “I was a student at the University of Illinois. I remember my mother saying to me, ‘Look at that Catherine Mackin on the floor, the first woman reporter [to work as a floor reporter at a national political convention]. Someday I can see you doing that!’ And I ended up doing it for my own hometown in Chicago [in 1980].”—Scott Smith
Marin reports for NBC 5, the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tonight.