Jim Williams (born February 4, 1957) is a weekday news anchor for WBBM-TV in Chicago.
[1] Williams began his broadcasting career in 1977 as a part-time news film librarian at WGN-TV in Chicago.
[2] In 2000, Williams was a finalist to replace Lester Holt as a principal news anchor at WBBM-TV, according to a November 15, 2002 article in the Chicago Sun-Times.
He briefly became a weekday morning news anchor in 2008, but in September 2008 returned to co-anchoring weekend evenings with Mai Martinez.
[3][4] On December 16, 2021, WBBM-TV announced that Williams and Marie Saavedra will co-anchor their new 4 pm hour-long newscast which will debut on January 24, 2022.