Category Archives: Recently On WLS-AM

US marks 9/11 with somber tributes, new monument to victims
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Americans were commemorating 9/11 with somber tributes, volunteer projects and a new monument to victims Tuesday, after a year when two attac...
Cumulus Media Sep 11, 2018

Georgia school to start paddling students as discipline
A charter school in Georgia is bringing back an old-fashioned form of discipline that has many parents up in arms. The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics, which teaches children in Kinderg...
Cumulus Media Sep 11, 2018

John Lennon celebrated with release of commemorative stamp
By Stephen R Groves, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - John Lennon’s iconic moptop, round glasses and grin will now adorn a U.S. stamp. Yoko Ono, and she and Lennon’s son, Sean Lennon, were...
Cumulus Media Sep 07, 2018

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







