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Robin Carolle Brantley (born August 4, 1957), known professionally as Robin Robinson, is a longtime Chicago television news anchor best known for her 27 years as main news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-TV in Chicago. She can now be heard on the radio at WBBM (AM) as a fill-in anchor/reporter and WVON as host of her own show, 'Robin's Nest.' Early life and education Born in Chicago, Robinson is the daughter of Louie Robinson, who was the West Coast editor for Ebony, and Mati Robinson. Robinson moved with her family to Pomona, California in 1960 and to Claremont, California in 1963. She graduated from Claremont High School, helping to integrate the school. Robinson earned a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University. Professional career Robinson began her career in 1979 working for KGTV-TV in San Diego as a reporter and morning news reader. In 1982, she shifted to KMGH-TV in Denver as a consumer reporter. In 1984, Robinson joined WBBM-TV as a consumer reporter and later was promoted to news anchor. Robinson worked for WBBM-TV until 1987, when she joined the staff of WFLD-TV in Chicago as part of its first evening news anchoring team, alongside fellow KMGH alum Kris Long. In taking the WFLD job, Robinson passed on an offer to return to KGTV in San Diego as an anchor, according to a June 24, 1987 report in the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1993, Robinson was joined on the anchor desk by longtime Chicago news anchor Walter Jacobson. Robinson and Jacobson worked together until Jacobson retired in 2006. Robinson co-anchored WFLD's late local news with Bob Sirott. She has won numerous local Emmy awards for her work. She also has appeared on multiple episodes of Fox's The Chicago Code as a Fox Chicago reporter alongside Bob Sirott. In November 2013, Robinson stepped down as weeknight anchor of WFLD's 9PM newscast after 26 years. She was reassigned the new role of host of the station's special segment, 'Chicago at the Tipping Point,' which focused on the growing violence in the city. She stayed in that role until July 28, 2014, when she left WFLD after a 27-year run. In April 2015, she was hired as a fill-in anchor/reporter for WBBM (AM) NewsRadio 780. On May 12, 2015, she was hired to host her own show on WVON-FM. In September 2015, Robinson, along with former colleague and anchor Lauren Cohn joined 'In The Loop,' a half-hour public affairs news program on WYCC, the PBS station in Chicago. During the mayoralty of Rahm Emanuel, she held a public outreach role with the Chicago Police Department. Robinson left this role during the mayoralty of Lori Lightfoot. Santa Claus comment On December 1, 2011, during a live 9 p.m. newscast, while speaking with another on-air reporter, Robinson said, "There is no Santa." The station received numerous telephone calls and emails complaining about her comment. Robinson later apologized and said that she should have given viewers the opportunity to take any children out of the room before making the comment. Personal life Robinson dated educator, author, and businessman Stedman Graham from 1982 until 1985. She has been married three times. Robinson was married to retired track and field sprinter Steve Williams in the 1980s. Her second marriage was to NBC spot salesman Terrence Brantley from July 1986 until 1990, and they share daughter Jade (1989). Her third marriage was to Dennis Allen from June 1991 until 1994, and they share son Cameron (October 1991). Robinson lives in the Bucktown neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side. References External links [1]. Discover the Robin Robinson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Robin Robinson books.
Best Seller Robin Robinson Books of 2024
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Unlimited Power a Black Choice
Tony RobbinsUnlimited Power, the international bestseller by Anthony Robbins, has guided millions along the path to success. Now, in Unlimited Power: A Black Choice, Robbins and his longtime a...
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Unlimited Power
Tony RobbinsIf you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power from #1 New York Times bestseller Tony Robbins shows you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and ...
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a storyteller he is unsurpassed' George MacDonald Fraser ...
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Tales of the Pacific
Jack LondonIf you know London primarily through novels like WHITE FANG, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight...
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Made In Scotland
Billy ConnollyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is act...
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No One Returns From the Enchanted Forest
Robin RobinsonAn American Library Association 2021 Best Graphic Novel for ChildrenIn this fantasy adventure graphic novel from debut authorillustrator Robin Robinson, a shy goblin must play the ...
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Peter Pan
Sir James Matthew BarrieWendy, Michael and John are sleeping when the window of their nursery blows open and lets in a very remarkable boy, Peter Pan, and his fairy, Tinker Bell. Peter soon entices the th...
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The Brown Reader
Judy Sternlight“To be up all night in the darkness of your youth but to be ready for the day to come…that was what going to Brown felt like.” Jeffrey EugenidesIn celebration of Brown University’s...
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Nadie regresa del Bosque Encantado
Robin RobinsonPero eso no desalienta a Pella, quien sabe que los temblores que están destruyendo Ciudad Goblin son provocados desde el corazón del Bosque Encantado por la Reina Tierra. Pella es ...
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The Auden Generation
Samuel HynesThis is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time pas...
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The Confessions Of Robin Askwith
Robin AskwithOf all the actors and personalities thrown up by that strangest of periods. The 1970s, surely Robin Askwith was one of the most 'of his time'? As star of the infamous CONFE...
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Just So Stories
Rudyard KiplingJUST SO STORIES by Rudyard Kipling are a firm family favourite.The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs everything from how the camel got in a humph (and go...
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The English Language
David CrystalThis is the definitive survey of the English language in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and...
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My Family and Other Strangers
Jeremy HardyWhen Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17thcen...
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die
Thomas Hardy50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as...
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We Would Have Played for Nothing
Fay VincentFormer Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game.Whitey Ford...
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Sons of a Good Keen Man
The Crump Brothers‘Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.’Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semiautobiographical novels about life as a rugged ou...
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Vanished
Lynda La PlanteThe upallnight new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BURIED and JUDAS HORSE.When an eccentric elderly widow claims she is being stalked, Dete...
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Pure Evil
Lynda La PlanteA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
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Seven Viking Romances
Penguin Books LtdCombining traditional myth, oral history and reworked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastica...