Category Archives: Big John and Ramblin' Ray Blog

Illinois appears poised to enter a second year without a budget. Lawmakers finished their legislative session Tuesday without agreement on a spending plan, setting up a November electoral showdown whi...

Mars is closer to Earth than it has been for 11 years: Between now and June 12th, Mars will be about 46.8 million miles from Earth. Yes, that’s still a long way off, but sometimes Mars is 249 mi...

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has been monitoring what’s going on at the VA in Wisconsin and around the country. He joined John to talk about what’s going on at the Tomah Veterans Affairs ...

In a stunning move, the Illinois House on Monday voted 72-43 to override Rauner's veto of the Chicago police and fire pension bill that had sparked a war of words between the Republican governor and E...

In a stunning move, the Illinois House on Monday voted 72-43 to override Rauner's veto of the Chicago police and fire pension bill that had sparked a war of words between the Republican governor and E...

In a stunning move, the Illinois House on Monday voted 72-43 to override Rauner's veto of the Chicago police and fire pension bill that had sparked a war of words between the Republican governor and E...

The Cincinnati Zoo had to kill one of their gorillas after a 4 year old fell into their habitat. I realize you can't let something happen to a child, but was it really necessary to killed the poor guy...

If you’re listening for John Howell on Memorial Day morning, we’ve given him the day off. Instead, he and all of WLS-AM 890 are proud to present “Fisher House Heroes” – a...

Republican lawmakers in the House used a Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday to push for impeachment of Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen for what they see as his breaching “ev...

The clock is still ticking on the legislative session in Springfield, and they seem to be no closer to coming up with a budget compromise. Prisons, schools and the state’s bond rating at risk if...