Patrick Elwood

Veteran Chicago newsman Patrick Elwood moved up this week to full-time general assignment reporter at WGN-Channel 9.

Since January 2014, Elwood has been working on a freelance basis at the Tribune Media station. He spent 15 years before that as a reporter and noon news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32.

Jennifer Lyons, news director of WGN, made Elwood’s appointment official Thursday.

“As a native Chicagoan, Patrick is one of Chicago’s Very Own,” she wrote in a memo. “He is hard working and dedicated to telling the stories of Chicago. You feel it in each report he gives. Patrick is tireless in the field and generous with his free time when it comes charitable organizations — especially the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.”

A fourth-generation South Side Chicagoan and University of Texas graduate, Elwood joined Fox 32 in 1999 from WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee. He previously worked in Houston and Corpus Christi, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.