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Bonnie DeShong
Founder and president of On The Street Promotions and Marketing Group

 

Bonnie "Hey Baby" DeShong is one Chicago's most well-known radio personalities. Currently serving as Director of Community relations at V-103, her ever-popular "Grapevine" feature spices up the Chicago airwaves. Bonnie earned a degree in Theatre from Illinois State University and moved to Chicago in 1977. Her career began as morning and afternoon drive traffic announcer at WGCI, where she later became the co0-host of the Banks and Company morning show with Doug Banks. 1993 found Bonnie moving to WVAZ to co-host the morning show. A movie critic for WFLD, Fox 32 Morning News and the second African American female to become a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, Bonnie DeShong has appeared in many professional plays, been featured in commercials for Budweiser, Coca Cola and a host of others, plus made a special appearance on the Martin television show. A member of the Delta Sigma Theta Public Services Sorority, Bonnie is a volunteer "Cuddler" at the Cradle Adoption Agency, she is on the board of the South Central Community Services Organization and is a member of Women of Substance. She organized the Bonnie DeShong V103 Walkathon Team, a group of listeners that walk in at least 10 walkathons a year for charity... We salute Bonnie Deshong... A NABFEME SHERO!

 



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