Background
Born in Chicago, Robinson is the daughter of Louie Robinson, who was the West Coast editor for Ebony, and Mati Robinson.
Born in Chicago, Robinson is the daughter of Louie Robinson, who was the West Coast editor for Ebony, and Mati Robinson.
She graduated from Claremont High School, helping to integrate the school.
She can now be heard on the radio at WBBM-TV (Department of Administration and Management) as a fill-in anchor/reporter and WVON as host of her own show, "Robin"s Nest."
Robinson moved with her family to Pomona, California in 1960 and to Claremont, California in 1963. Robinson earned a bachelor"s degree from San Diego State University. Robinson began her career in 1979 working for KGTV-television in San Diego as a reporter and morning news reader.
In 1982, she shifted to KMGH-television in Denver as a consumer reporter.
In 1984, Robinson joined WBBM-TV-television as a consumer reporter and later was promoted to news anchor. Robinson worked for WBBM-TV-television until 1987, when she joined the staff of WFLD-television 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 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-TV (Department of Administration and Management) NewsRadio 780.
On May 12, 2015, she was hired to host her own show on WVON-FM.
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.
She has been married three times.
Robinson was married to retired track and field sprinter Steve Williams in the 1980s, to National Broadcasting Company spot salesman Terrence Brantley from July 1986 until 1990, and to Dennis Allen from June 1991 until 1994. Robin and Williams had a daughter, Jade in 1989. She and Allen had a son, Cameron, in October 1991.
Robinson lives in the Bucktown neighborhood on Chicago"s Northwest Side.