Category Archives: Recently On WLS-AM

The Shedd Aquarium announcing plans today to renovate and upgrade many of the exhibits, gardens and learning spaces by 2027. The 500 million dollar renovation will take place over the next four years ...

Child sex trafficking survivors no longer face the prospect of decades of prison-time because they attempted to protect themselves against their exploiters due to a new Illinois law. Yasmin Vafa is th...

The reports of alleged hazing and toxic cultures within the athletic programs at Northwestern University in Evanston are growing. Managing partner at Chicago-based Levin & Perconti, Margaret Batte...

We’re in the last weeks of summer and there is still time to go fishing in the rivers of Illinois. Outdoors columnist with the Chicago Sun-Times, Dale Bowman, joins Ray and Jane on the Steve Coc...

Former DuPage County Commissioner, Greg Hart, joins Ray and Jane to discuss the impact of the opioid crisis throughout the Chicagoland area and how people can help combat the epidemic.Resources can be...

Ed Kilgore, longtime political observer and New York Magazine columnist, asks if DeSantis' reboot will be more like McCain's or Bush's. John takes a look at Ed Sheeran's time in Chicago, both at Soldi...

Just ahead of election season, Russell Lissau of The Daily Herald has taken a look at funding numbers from the first half of the year for each of Illinois’s two major parties. He’s found t...

If history has taught us anything, it’s that nice guys usually finish last. But why, then, is Senator Tim Scott avoiding negativity in the GOP primary? If he wants to boost his poll numbers, Mr....

Mark Followill joins John Howell to talk about everything from the Mavericks to Minneapolis. Of course, as a play-by-play announcer for MLS Season Pass, he tells John about everything to expect in the...

The man who admitted to buying a gun that was used to kill a 7 year old in a McDonald’s drive thru in 2021 will not serve any jail time. Eric Keys Junior was sentenced in Indianapolis today to t...