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Cheri Callahan Bustos is the Senior Director of Corporate Communications for Trinity Regional Health System, one of the Quad-City region’s largest employers. For most of her career, she was a journalist, serving as a reporter and editor in Springfield and the Quad-Cities and covering everything from police and politics to health and human interest stories. She has received many statewide and even national journalism awards.
Her family has a long history in government and politics, with her grandfather serving as a State Representative, her uncle as a County Party Chairman, her aunt as a County Party Chairwoman and her father serving as a press secretary to Paul Simon and chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Alan J. Dixon.
Cheri serves on many boards, including The Women’s Connection, which is the Quad-City area’s largest women’s organization; the local public radio station, WVIK; the largest child-development service called Skip-A-Long; and the East Moline Economic Development Commission. She volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Junior Achievement, the YMCA and in the arts, among many other organizations.
For fun, she oil paints, rides bikes, plays tennis and reads daily newspapers and magazines and biographies.
She is married to Gerry Bustos, who is head of the detective bureau for the Rock Island County Sheriff’s Department and commander of the Quad-City Bomb Squad. They have three children: Tony, who is an engineer in the Minneapolis area; Nick, an incoming freshman at Illinois College in Jacksonville; and Joey, a sophomore at United Township High School in East Moline, Ill. |
