Sandra Torres is a bilingual journalist, currently working as a morning and midday reporter for NBC 5 and Telemundo Chicago.
Previously, Torres worked as a general assignment reporter for CBS 2 in Chicago from 2015 to 2017.
For Torres, returning to the NBC 5 and Telemundo Chicago family, meant coming home. She left NBC 5 in 2012, after working as a content producer for the morning show for 2 years. She joined the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2012 to gain experience as a multi-media journalist. While there, she covered stories that made national headlines such as the mass shooting at a Sikh temple and the Slenderman stabbing case. The station also gave her the opportunity to anchor the 10 p.m. show for Telemundo Wisconsin-- the only local Spanish-speaking station in the state.
Torres began her career in broadcast journalism in 2006, after graduating from Illinois State University with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication and a minor in Spanish. Her first job out of college was at Telemundo Chicago, where she freelanced from 2007 to 2010, as a general assignment reporter and fill-in weather anchor.
Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, she moved to Chicago's Northwest suburbs with her family when she was a teenager. She’s a graduate of Buffalo Grove High School.
Torres is also a proud board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists- Chicago Chapter.
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Suburban substitute teacher charged with battery after reports of hitting, choking student
A suburban substitute teacher has been charged with battery and child endangerment after reports from parents surfaced that she had chased, hit and choked a student and injured another inside a fourth-grade classroom another after becoming angry.
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Questions remain after parents say substitute teacher at suburban school hit, choked student
Days after several young students were injured in an incident involving a substitute teacher in a fourth-grade classroom in south suburban Country Club Hills, questions from parents remain unanswered, with school officials and police offering few details about the events that transpired.
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Transgender athlete's win at suburban middle school track meet sparks heated debate
Debate over a transgender student’s win in a suburban middle school girls track meet grew heated at a school board meeting Monday.
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Parents say substitute teacher at suburban school choked, hit student during incident in classroom
Parents of students at Meadowview Intermediate School in south suburban Country Club Hills are speaking out after they say a substitute teacher used physical force on a fourth grade student during an incident that left at least two students injured, including one that was pinned by a desk. Parents and family members of some of the students involved held a…
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Suburban school district celebrates Cinco de Mayo
NBC Chicago’s Sandra Torres shows us how one school district in the Northwest suburbs is helping students celebrate Cinco de Mayo
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Pope Francis mourned at Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines
People have been paying their respects to Pope Francis in suburban Des Plaines at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
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Group gathers for Good Friday tradition in Pilsen
In Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, a dedicated group reenacts the stations of the cross every year on Good Friday
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CPD officer who died inside 18th District police station ID'd
The off-duty Chicago police officer who died inside the city’s 18th District station overnight has been identified as Malissa Torres, 34, of Chicago, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner.
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‘Our officers are human:' CPD releases statement after officer dies in 18th District station
A large Chicago police presence with more than a dozen CPD squad cars lined the street in front of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago early Thursday following an incident that occurred 18th District Police Station overnight.
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NBC Chicago team member's story of loss to Covid-19
By some estimates, Covid-19 killed over 1.2 million Americans. Some families experienced that loss multiple times over, losing parents, children and siblings days or weeks apart. That was the case for one of our own team members here at NBC Chicago
