Melissa's radio career
started in Champaign where she worked as an intern and received her first
break imitating Bart Simpson on The Mix 94.5. She soon worked her way up
to the Morning Host there with Jerome Ritchie before moving to Cincinnati
where she worked at The Mix 94.1. She then came home to Chicago where she
worked at WKIE-FM 92.7/5. In 2001 she started hosting Mornings at WLIT-FM
93.9 in Chicago.
In 2007 Melissa hosted HomesPlus on CLTV with Jane Monzures. She also
filled in as a guest co-host with Bruce Wolf on "Barely Today", a 4:30 am
weekday newscast on NBC 5.
Melissa grew up in Northbrook where she attended Glenbrook High School.
She attended College at University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. In
2008 Melissa received a Distinguished Alumnus Award. She was also
recognized as an outstanding radio broadcaster as well as for community
service. Melissa has been the only woman to lead a morning radio show and
the first woman in the Country to host both a show in the morning and DJ
in the afternoon. She has also helped raise over $500,000 for local
charities.
Melissa has been happily married for 61/2 years and has been blessed with
two stepsons and two daughters. .
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