Allison Payne (February 12, 1964 – September 1, 2021) was a nine-time Emmy Award winner, a 21-year anchorwoman with WGN-TV, a veteran international journalist, a popular public speaker, and an actively involved community builder. [1]

Sep 11, 2021 · Allison Payne, a nine-time Emmy Award winner who was the face of WGN-TV for two decades and inspired a generation of Black women reporters, died Sept. 1 in her hometown of Detroit, the television station reported. She was 57. Payne made Chicago her home in 1990 after WGN hired her when she was 25.

Sep 11, 2021 · The Chicago media industry is mourning the death of Allison Payne, a TV reporter and anchor who worked for more than two decades in the Windy City and who died in Detroit, Mich., on Sept. 1 at age 57, according to WGN-TV, her old workplace.

Sep 13, 2021 · Allison Payne, a Detroit native and former longtime TV anchor in Chicago who crisscrossed the globe for various stories and won nine Emmys, died earlier this month after a series...

Sep 11, 2021 · Michigan native Payne got her start at WGN-TV in 1990 at the age of 25. According to the outlet, Payne covered numerous top stories across the globe, including "tracing former President Barack Obama ’s roots in Kenya and traveling to the Ivory Coast alongside the Rev. Jesse Jackson."

Sep 11, 2021 · Allison Payne, the longtime TV news reporter anchor for Chicago’s WGN, died on September 1 at age 57, WGN reported. The Detroit native joined WGN in 1990 at the age of 25 and...

Sep 11, 2021 · CHICAGO — WGN-TV is mourning the loss of longtime former news anchor Allison Payne, who died at the age of 57. Payne was a 21-year veteran of WGN-TV, who was hired in 1990 as a 25-year-old out...

Sep 21, 2021 · Allison Payne had not visited Chicago-area homes for more than a decade, but she was such a striking, substantive and memorable television presence that her Sept. 1 death in Detroit at 57...

Sep 11, 2021 · CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former WGN-TV anchor Allison Payne has died at the age of 57. The 21-year veteran of the station passed away September 1 at her home in Detroit, according to a WGN press release.

Sep 14, 2021 · There has been heartache and grief over the untimely death of former WGN-TV anchor Allison Payne. The 57-year-old news anchor died on September 1 at her home. A cause of death has not...