Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Chicago hotel workers strike in pursuit of better benefits
CHICAGO (AP) - Workers are picketing outside several downtown Chicago hotels as housekeepers, servers, cooks and others participate in a strike as part of an effort to get better benefits. The Friday ...
Sep 07, 2018
Rahm on Trump: “The emperor has no clothes…he is pure id.”
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Taping “Connected to Chicago” for Sunday night at 7 on WLS-AM, Mayor Rahm Emanuel talked with Bill Cameron about who the next mayor might be and the ...
Sep 06, 2018
Lightfoot, FOP President debate proposed police consent decree
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The proposed federal consent decree on Chicago Police conduct now includes the disputed requirement that cops who point a gun at someone must file a report on th...
Sep 06, 2018
Van Dyke posts additional bond
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — The judge overseeing the trial of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke didn’t send him to jail Thursday but instead increased his bond for violat...
Sep 06, 2018
Durbin backs Booker threat to release confidential emails
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is backing Senator Booker’s threat to violate senate rules and release confidential emails. Durbin’s in senate leadership ...
Sep 06, 2018
Vallas warns about latecomers jumping in to race
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Emanuel’s surprise decision not to run for a third term invites possible new names to the contest which already has more than a dozen candidates. Lea...
Sep 04, 2018
Could Chicago’s next mayor be named Jarrett, Madigan or Burke?
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) So, what’s next for mayor now that Rahm Emanuel has taken himself out of the running? Rahm Emanuel jumped in out of the blue with big money when Richard Da...
Sep 04, 2018
Durkin: Pritzker tax hike would hit every wage earner, not just rich
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) GOP legislators are warning that the state income tax hike Democratic candidate JB Pritzker is pushing would hit every wage earner, not just the rich. In the lon...
Aug 27, 2018
Chicago suburb has 1955 Chevy rescue truck for sale
1955 Chevrolet panel truck. Photo Courtesy of Batavia Fire Department BATAVIA, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago fire department’s sale offer could make someone a regular on the area’s summer...
Aug 27, 2018
Rauner vetoes bill raising Illinois minimum teacher salaries
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has a vetoed bill that would have given public school teachers an annual minimum salary of $40,000 over the next five years. Legislators approved th...
Aug 27, 2018
