Studies

Although Allison was born in Dover, she grew up in Pine City, Minnesota. The two states have similar cold climates so the young Allison did not experience a drastic change in weather. The main difference between the two states are the people who reside there. In Delaware, Allison would have run into upper class residents who considered themselves to be classy. In Minnesota, Allison was raised among soft spoken and hard working people.

Allison went to a Pine City High School which was a public institution. Fortunately for Allison she was able to attend a high school that was in the city that she grew up in. Sometimes kids move around a lot and end up feeling left out in high school because they don’t know anyone. It’s easy for the kids to go to the same elementary, the same junior high school, and the same high school. They were able to develop friendships through each level of schooling so they don’t have problems finding friends in high school. Some kids end up going to a high school where they’re alone and don’t know anyone because they’re new to the area. Allison was happy to go to high school with classmates and friends that she knew her whole life.

After finishing high school, Allison attended the Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Gustavus was a private college with an affiliation to the Evangelical Lutheran Church. In college, Allison studied communications and speech. In 1985, Allison proudly graduated receiving cum laude. After graduating from the Gustavus Adolphus College, she went on to pursue her professional career in television. Throughout her life, Allison has worked on many tv shows along the way.

Career

In 1986, Allison moved to Rochester, Minnesota. While she was living there, she started to work for a news station called KTTC-TV. The NBC affiliate channel hired her to work as a general assignment reporter. It took her only one year for her to gain her first step in the professional ladder. In 1987, she started to work as a news anchor and was also promoted to the high level position of producer. She later went to Buffalo, New York to work as an anchor and general assignment reporter for the Channel 2 News. The channel was part of the station WGRZ-TV, which was also another NBC affiliate channel. Four years after starting her professional career, Allison hosted a WMAQ television show called First Thing in the Morning. She had to make a move to Chicago, Illinois to start working for that NBC affiliated television station. The following year, she co hosted alongside fellow anchor Warner Saunders on the news show Chicago Live.

Allison was hired as a co anchor for NBC 5 news cast in 1995. She worked with Warner Saunders as her co host once again. Three years later, she worked with Byron Miranda and Nesita Kwan in the daytime NBC 5 program Chicago Daytime. The program lasted only one year because of budget cuts and other problems. From 1999 to 2005, Allison hosted Wednesday's Child which was a weekly program. In the year 2000, Allison became the co-executive producer, co-creator and host of the half hour special series named MomTV. A year after Wednesday’s Child stopped airing on television, Allison was promoted alongside her colleague Warner Saunders and they both became anchors for NBC. They also hosted the 10pm Sunday Newscast during the 2006 National Football League season. The time slot gave Allison and Warner a lot of exposure because of all the football fans that would tune in after the end of games. Three years later, Rob Stafford became her new co host after Warner Saunder retired. Her salary has not made public because Allison likes to keep her personal details private.