Chloe Hilles, who has worked as a local government reporter for the last year at the La Crosse Tribune, has left the role to join the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper announced.
A graduate of Northwestern University with degrees in journalism and political science, Hilles joined the La Crosse newspaper in October 2022. While attending Northwestern, she reported for the Medill Investigative Lab, interned at Injustice Watch and was a content writer for Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She also volunteered as an article transcriber for the Prison Journalism Project and the Books and Breakfast program where she tutored elementary students in reading and comprehension.