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September 19, 2024

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Ray Cortopassi WGN, Bio, Age, Height, Salary, Wife, Family and Net Worth

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Ray Cortopassi is an American journalist born and raised in Dolton, Chicago. He currently serves as a co-anchor of WGN Evening News at 5 and 6 pm
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Ray Cortopassi Biography

Ray Cortopassi is an American journalist born and raised in Dolton, Chicago. He currently serves as a co-anchor of WGN Evening News at 5 and 6 pm, WGN News at Nine, and WGN News at Ten in Chicago. He joined the station in September 2020 and has been a television broadcaster for more than 25 years. Previously he served as a news anchor of Nexstar’s FOX59 news team in Indianapolis.

Ray Cortopassi Education

Cortopassi studied at Columbia College Chicago where he received his bachelor’s degree in Journalism.

Ray Cortopassi WGN Age

Ray was born in 1967, in south suburban Dolton, Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is 54 years old as of 2021. READ: Larry Potash

Ray Cortopassi Height

Cortopassi’s information about the exact height he stands at is not publicly available. However, his height is estimated to be 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m).

Ray Cortopassi Family

Ray was born and raised in south suburban Dolton, Chicago. Ray’s parents grew up in Roseland; his father was a sheet metal foreman at U.S. Steel’s “South Works” plant, and his mother was a piano teacher who worked from their home in Dolton. However, there’s is no much information about his family members including her parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. His details will be updated once confirmed in the public eye.

Ray Cortopassi Wife

Cortopassi is currently married to his wife Leslie. The couple is proud parents of four children. The family lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Ray Cortopassi WGN-TV

Ray joined the WGN Newsgroup in September of 2020 as co-anchor of WGN Evening News at 5 and 6 pm, WGN News at Nine, and WGN News at Ten.

Cortopassi has been a TV broadcaster for over 25 years. Most as of late, Cortopassi has been an individual from Nexstar’s FOX59 newsgroup in Indianapolis, where he anchored the #1 appraised morning broadcast and 4 pm news since 2009. Prior to working for FOX59, he was the night anchor at the ABC station in Indianapolis and furthermore invested energy anchoring and revealing at TV stations in Las Vegas, NV, and Traverse City, MI.

He began his profession in Chicago as a reporter for the City News Bureau. Ray has been honored with different Emmy and Associated Press awards during his years in Indianapolis.

As one of Chicago’s Very Own, Cortopassi hails from south rural Dolton and graduated with a news coverage degree from Columbia College Chicago. Ray’s folks experienced childhood in Roseland; his dad was a sheet metal foreman at U.S. Steel’s “South Works” plant, and his mom was a piano educator who worked from their home in Dolton.

In the same way as other children experiencing childhood in the 1970s in Chicago, Ray regularly woke up to Ray Rayner and had lunch watching Bozo’s Circus. It was in those developmental days that Ray built up an affection for the broadcast world and the enchantment of TV.

Ray Cortopassi Salary

Cortopassi’s profession as a journalist, anchor, and reporter earns an estimated salary ranging from $52,254 to $88,000 per year. Her details about the amount of salary she earns are currently not available.

Ray Cortopassi Net Worth

Ray as an American journalist, anchor, and reporter has a massive wealth and her wealth is estimated to be ranging from $1 to $2 million.