Category Archives: Recently On WLS-AM

Burt Reynolds, “Smokey and the Bandit” star, dead at 82
[van id=”entertainment/2018/09/06/actor-burt-reynolds-obit-elam-pkg-vpx.cnn”] By David Ariosto Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed megastar who first strutted on screen more than half a century...
Cumulus Media Sep 06, 2018

Senate bill would allow medical marijuana for veterans
A new Senate bill would approve the use of medial marijuana for military veterans. The Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act would allow VA doctors to prescribe medical cannabis in states where i...
Cumulus Media Sep 06, 2018

Anti-violence demonstrators aiming to shut down part of Kennedy near O’Hare
CHICAGO (ABC 7) — An anti-violence demonstration scheduled for Monday plans to shut down a part of the Kennedy Expressway aiming to disrupt traffic to O’Hare International Airport. The Coa...
Cumulus Media Sep 03, 2018

Omarosa’s book sales dropping fast
Omarosa may need to drop another tape or something because the sales of her new book are dropping fast. According to the Washington Post, Omarosa’s book that documents her time in the White Hous...
Cumulus Media Aug 31, 2018

McCain lays in state today
The body of the late Sen John McCain lays in state today in the Capitol Rotunda. — On the floor of the Senate this week, Senator Dick Durbin said McCain cast one of the most courageous votes in ...
Cumulus Media Aug 31, 2018

Mayor Emanuel tears up
For the second time this week, Bill Cameron says Mayor Emanuel teared-up in public this morning talking about a big rite of passage in his family. — This Labor Day weekend, the mayor and his wif...
Cumulus Media Aug 30, 2018

Smoke Detector Found, DCFS Investigating
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Officials with the Chicago Fire Department announced Wednesday that a smoke detector was found in the rubble of the home in Little Village where 10 chil...
Cumulus Media Aug 30, 2018

First West Nile Death Reported
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) - The Illinois Department of Public Health Wednesday confirmed the first human West Nile virus-related death in Illinois for 2018. A LaSalle County reside...
Cumulus Media Aug 29, 2018

Electric school buses are on the way
Electric school buses are on the way from some new money generated by an air pollution lawsuit settlement. — Some electric school buses are being promised from the proceeds of Volkswagen’s...
Cumulus Media Aug 29, 2018

Mayor Emanuel talks about the deadly fire that took 10 lives
https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/353/2018/08/29131712/Bill-Rahm-Fatal-Fire.mp3 In an interview with Bill Cameron and the Sun-Times this morning, Mayor Emanuel was talking for the first time about the ...
Cumulus Media Aug 29, 2018






