Category Archives: Recently On WLS-AM
High school football players suspended for naked “Oreo run.”
BYRON, Ill. (AP) - Ten football players at a Northern Illinois high school were suspended from the team for three games last month after they ran across a field naked with Oreo cookies wedged b...
Dec 2, 2018
Al Gore Calls Trump “The Face Of Climate Denial”
Al Gore went after President Trump’s views on climate change in a recent Daily Show appearance. Gore told host Trevor Noah that Trump had become “the face of climate denial”, and tha...
Nov 29, 2018
Obama blames media for contributing to partisan divide
[van id=”politics/2018/11/29/barack-obama-media-climate-nyt-fox-sot-ctn-vpx.cnn”] Former President Barack Obama blamed a shifting media environment for sharpening partisan divides, saying ...
Nov 29, 2018
Trump threatens to release dirt on the Democrats
With Democrats controlling the House, President Trump can expect to face some Congressional investigations in the coming months. But Trump says he’s ready to ‘counter-punch’ with som...
Nov 29, 2018
President Trump Threatens to Pull GM Subsidies
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News A day after General Motors announced thousands of job cuts and possible plant closures President Trump, who promised to help auto workers, threatened on Twitter to ...
Nov 28, 2018
City Council to examine CPS sex scandals
(CHICAGO) At City Hall today, there will be a City Council hearing into the infamous Chicago Public Schools sex scandal involving teachers preying on students. Conspicuously absent from this hearing w...
Nov 28, 2018
New Jersey university won’t let Chick-fil-A on campus
Rider University in New Jersey won’t be letting Chick-fil-A set up shop on campus. The university removed the restaurant from a student survey about eating options because of Chick-fil-A’s...
Nov 27, 2018
Early voting brings an absurdity to April runoff elections
https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/353/2018/11/26123757/Bill-EarlyVotingAbsurdity.mp3 When they were writing the new early voting statute in Springfield, Jim Allen at the Chicago Board of Elections says...
Nov 27, 2018
Post-blizzard roads snarl Chicago-area morning commutes
Snowfall was winding down in the Chicago area early Monday, following a blizzard that caused white-out conditions and dumped up to a foot of snow as millions of travelers headed home at the end of the...
Nov 26, 2018
Lakeshore flood warning in effect
The National Weather Service has issued a lakeshore flood warning that remains in effect until noon on Monday. From the NWS: Abnormally high lake levels combined with strong onshore winds, potentially...
Nov 25, 2018
