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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...

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...

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 ...

John Dempsey, for WLS-AM Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke is ending his media silence, as his trial is set to get underway for killing black teenager Laquan McDonald in October of 2014. Van Dyke ...

Video via You Tubbe/TheCompCop Sunday Night’s finale of Sacha Baron Cohen’s showtime series “Who is America” featured a familiar face… O.J. Simpson. The show featured Coh...

By MARC LEVY, Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Roman Catholic high school will shed the name of Washington’s archbishop after he was cited in a sweeping grand jury report as having allo...

[van id=”cnnmoney/2018/08/14/aretha-franklin-greatest-hits-lc-orig.cnn”] By Veronica Stracqualursi President Donald Trump and other politicians were among the many mourning the loss of leg...

(CHICAGO) Air shows across North America have been entertaining audiences from all over the world for about a century. This weekend, the Chicago Air and Water Show returns to North Avenue Beach. Show ...

[van id=”cnnmoney/2018/08/14/aretha-franklin-obit-elam-pkg-vpx.cnn”] By MESFIN FEKADU and HILLEL ITALIE, AP Entertainment Writers NEW YORK (AP) - Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Que...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (ELGIN, Ill.) — A new law does away with a warning for first time offenders who text and instead increases the penalty. House Bill 4846 was signed into law Tuesday,...