Alexis McAdams Biography, Early Life, Age, Height, Husband

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Alexis McAdams Background

Early Life

Alexis McAdams grew up in Palatine, Illinois, in a household that placed strong value on civic engagement, work ethic, and cultural pride. She and her brother Sebastian were raised bilingually in English and Spanish, a skill that would later open early professional doors in Chicago’s multilingual media market.

She was a varsity cross country athlete at William Fremd High School, competing at the IHSA State Championships and recording a personal best of 18:20.0 in the 3-mile run during her freshman year. The discipline required by long-distance running carried over directly into the demanding schedules of breaking news journalism. A defining moment came at age 17 during a high school field trip to the NBC 5 studios in downtown Chicago, where the fast-paced broadcast environment sparked her goal of one day reporting from a major Chicago newsroom.

Family Background

Her uncle, Tom Dart, serves as Cook County Sheriff — one of the most prominent law enforcement positions in Illinois. Her brother Sebastian Torres graduated from Illinois State University in 2010 and works as a television photographer for Telemundo Chicago. This created a distinctive dynamic during Alexis’s time at ABC 7 Chicago, where siblings frequently covered the same breaking stories on different cameras and for different networks.

Alexis McAdams Career

McAdams began her broadcast career as a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor at WTVO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Rockford, Illinois. Her bilingual abilities enabled her to also gather and present news simultaneously for Telemundo Chicago and NBC 5 (WMAQ) during her early years, reporting in both English and Spanish within the same broadcast cycle.

She then moved to Indianapolis to join WXIN/WTTV, the Fox and CBS affiliate duopoly, where she won an Emmy Award in 2016 for Best Evening Newscast and became the lead reporter on the high-profile Delphi murder case — the investigation into the deaths of Libby German and Abby Williams that drew national attention. (Fox News)

In November 2018, she achieved her long-held goal of returning to her home market, joining ABC 7 Chicago (WLS-TV) as a per diem reporter on the crime beat. Her time there included comprehensive coverage of the R. Kelly sexual abuse trial in 2019 and extensive field reporting during the George Floyd protests and Chicago civil unrest in 2020. She was also nominated for Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards in both 2019 and 2020 for her newscast contributions.

In October 2021, Fox News Channel signed her as a New York-based national correspondent. Since then, she has covered some of the most significant events of the decade — reporting live from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha, the Buffalo mass shooting at Tops grocery store in May 2022, and the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania during the July 2024 assassination attempt, where she was forced to take cover while reporting. (Fox News Facebook)

She has also conducted a one-on-one interview with President Trump in Pennsylvania, covering topics including AI, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Butler shooting, and the investigation into Senator Adam Schiff, and provided extensive coverage of the Columbia University pro-Palestinian protests in 2025.

Some Lesser-Known Facts

• She is bilingual in English and Spanish and worked simultaneously as a reporter for both Telemundo Chicago and NBC 5 early in her career, presenting the same stories in both languages.
• Her brother Sebastian Torres is a photographer at Telemundo Chicago — the two siblings frequently covered the same Chicago breaking news stories from different sides of the camera.
• Her goal to work in Chicago broadcasting was sparked at age 17 by a high school field trip to the NBC 5 studios downtown.
• She was a varsity cross country runner at William Fremd High School and competed at the IHSA State Championships, recording a 3-mile personal best of 18:20.
• During the hiring controversy at WLS-TV in 2019, the station’s president and general manager formally stated that McAdams was hired entirely on her own merits, independent of her family connection to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
• She participated in the Polar Plunge at Olson Lake in Rockford to raise funds for the Special Olympics during her early career at WTVO.
• She was physically present during the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania in July 2024, was forced to take cover during the shooting, and continued reporting from the scene.
• She interviewed Wendy Rittenhouse, Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother, exclusively following the not-guilty verdict in the Kenosha trial.
• She reported live outside Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City during protests following the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on Roe v. Wade.
• She covered the Canadian trucker protests in Ottawa, Canada — among her earliest major international field assignments for Fox News.
• She and her husband established a home down payment fund through their wedding registry, a detail noted in public records surrounding their November 2025 wedding.
• She walks to work in Manhattan and described it in an Instagram post as “not a bad walk to work” — a glimpse into her grounded, work-centered lifestyle in New York City.
• She stresses that @alexismcadamstv is her only official Instagram account, regularly warning followers about impersonator accounts attempting to scam her audience.

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