Update #1: The Chicago Sun-Times says Sharon Bialek has a second job interview tomorrow (11/10) for a position in the sales department at Salem's conservative talk WIND (560). Sneed also reports that Bialek saw Cain last month at a Tea Party event in Chicago.

Update #2: Former WGN staffer Steve Cochran, who worked with Bialek at WGN (720), tells Robert Feder at TimeOut Chicago he believes her version of the events: "I know she's a dedicated single mother, and I can't see any scenario where she would come forward like this, unless she felt she absolutely had to."

Her name is Sharon Bialek, and she worked at Tribune’s WGN radio (720) from 2001 to 2004, and then at CBS Radio's WCKG (105.9) starting in 2005. WLS-TV, Chicago News says Bialek had a number of jobs in the 1990s and 2000s and "appears to have struggled financially", at times. The incident that her attorney Gloria Allred talked about in Tuesday's press conference occurred in 1997. Bialek claims that then-National Restaurant Association head Herman Cain reached under her skirt, as she asked about potential employment. She had worked for the NRA outside of Washington, been let go, and had traveled to Washington DC to meet with Cain, because she needed a job. Her fiancé Mark Harwood says "this is truly an American girl who’s got a big heart and wants to do the right thing” by coming forward with her story. Yesterday Rush Limbaugh talked about Bialek, making a produced audio joke out of the pronunciation of her last name.