Robin Baumgarten is the news anchor on WGN-TV Morning News, which airs Monday through Friday from 5 to 9 a.m. 

Until recently, Baumgarten held the spot of airborne traffic reporter, bringing viewers up-to-the-minute reports on area traffic over Chicago in Skycam 9, WGN-TV's helicopter. 

She started working on WGN-TV Morning News in 1995. She also reports on stories for the WGN-TV News at Noon and WGN-TV News at Nine. 

Baumgarten worked in news/traffic reporting for Shadow Broadcast Services in Chicago from 1990 to 1996. During that time she worked as a traffic reporter for WLUP Radio's "Jonathan Brandmeier Show" for four and a half years and as a traffic reporter for CLTV News in 1994. She also spent one year doing freelance work with ABC Sports in 1990. 

A lifelong Chicagoan, Baumgarten received a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1990.