Complex sentence: She is the first African-American woman to anchor the prime time news in Chicago and did so from 1985 to 2008, anchoring the 5pm, 6pm and 10pm news every weekday.
Split into simpler sentences: She is the first African-American woman to anchor the prime time news in Chicago. From 1985 to 2008, she anchored the 5pm, 6pm and 10pm news every weekday.