Background
Felicia Middlebrooks was born in Gary, Indiana.
Felicia Middlebrooks was born in Gary, Indiana.
She graduated from West Side High School and Purdue University Calumet earning a bachelor"s degree in communication, where she now takes on the role as a professor for news broadcasting.
She is the news anchor of WBBM-TV Newsradio in Chicago, Illinois. She worked as a steelworker in northwest Indiana to finance her education. Her previous radio stations were WBAA, WJOB, WGVE, and WLTH before coming to Chicago.
Felicia worked at Columbia Broadcasting System Radio where she was the first woman and African American to co-anchor mornings.
Felicia celebrated her 25th Anniversary of on-air broadcasting with Newsradio 780 WBBM-TV on October 1, 2009. Middlebrooks is the director and producer of her own video production company, Saltshaker Productions Limited Liability Company, located in Chicago and Los Los Angeles
In March of 2002, she was in a highly publicized dispute with management and her job was saved by the Review Jesse Jackson. (references #4 & 5).