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Vince Gerasole
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Vince Gerasole serves as a general assignment reporter for CBS 2 Chicago.
Gerasole joined the station in April 2001, and since that time he has anchored and reported for various station newscasts. Currently, he can be found covering the features beat and as host of CBS 2's popular dining segment, TABLE FOR 2.
Gerasole has been honored for excellence in broadcast journalism throughout his career. He was named the best broadcast reporter in the state by the Associated Press of Illinois in 2001. He's received five Emmy Awards for his work at CBS 2, including two for his weekly series INSIDE CHICAGO, showcasing the lighter side of the city's people and places, one for his featured series on home improvements and make-overs and one for his work on CBS 2's 2004 broadcast of the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon. Gerasole was also honored by the Associated Press of Pennsylvania for Best Spot News Coverage. He received the Leonardo DaVinci Award for "Excellence in Communications," from the Illinois chapter of the Sons of Italy, and "The David Award," from Illinois' Italo-American National Union. Both awards honored his commitment to the community. Gerasole is also the 2006 recipient of the Dante Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans.
Before working at CBS 2, Gerasole was a general assignment reporter at WSB-TV in Atlanta, Ga. Prior to that, Gerasole worked as an anchor and reporter at KHNL-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii. He also served as a Capitol Hill and White House correspondent in Washington, D.C., for Cox Broadcasting, reporting for stations in San Francisco and Pittsburgh and anchoring "Washington Week," a weekly Washington affairs newscast. Previously, he worked as both an anchor and reporter at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His first on-air role came as an anchor and reporter at KCRL-TV in Reno, Nev. Gerasole, who is fluent in Italian, began his broadcasting career as a New York-based field producer for the Italian Network RAI.
Vince graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Political Science and Italian, and attended the University's Medill School of Journalism. He is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Gerasole, his wife and two daughters make their home in Evanston.