FishbowlDC scoops that NBC News D.C. correspondent John Yang is heading to Chicago, to cover the Midwest for NBC News and MSNBC.

In an email obtained by TVNewser, Yang tells colleagues, "NBC is moving me from the city of big egos to the city of broad shoulders." The former ABC News correspondent, Yang, who joined NBC in 2007 hopes to be "fully engaged" in Chicago by Sept. 1.