Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

Pritzker fires back, calls Rauner “incompetent”, “unhinged”
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Today was Democrats day at the State Fair in Springfield. Challenger JB Pritzker fired up the troops by calling businessman Gov. Bruce Rauner “managerially...
Cumulus Media Aug 16, 2018

Ald. Willie Cochran intends to plead guilty to corruption charges
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Indicted Alderman Willie Cochran’s defense attorney told a judge in federal court today that the alderman is planning to plead guilty in a plea deal. Alder...
Cumulus Media Aug 15, 2018

Protest planned for Labor Day on road leading to O’Hare
By Bill Cameron (CHICAGO) At City Hall, it's been learned that another protest demanding the resignations of the mayor and his police superintendent is planned for another highway. Bolstered by the lo...
Cumulus Media Aug 15, 2018

Rahm denies neglecting neighborhoods in favor of downtown
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel is hitting back at his challengers who say he’s only interested in helping his fat-cat developer pals who fund his re-election campaign....
Cumulus Media Aug 15, 2018

Illinois Attorney General files lawsuit against Trump Tower for violating clean water laws
The Illinois attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Trump Tower in Chicago, alleging that it is taking in and releasing millions of gallons of water into the Chicago River without having conduct...
Cumulus Media Aug 15, 2018

Quinn term limit initiative may have hit a legal snag
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Former governor Pat Quinn’s petitions for a November referendum to limit Rahm Emanel and all mayors to two terms may have hit a snag. Quinn’s petitio...
Cumulus Media Aug 14, 2018

Rauner on Madigan lawsuit: “ I hope they get to the truth of it”
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has long been a political target of Gov. Bruce Rauner, but the governor ratcheted it up a notch Monday, saying, "I hope he's been doing something illegal and I h...
Cumulus Media Aug 14, 2018

City Hall fight looming over Ride Sharing services
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) At City Hall, a fight is brewing over propose limits on ride-sharing like Uber and Lyft. The idea is to do what New York City has just done, protect the cabbies ...
Cumulus Media Aug 13, 2018

Emanuel: Neighborhoods, not more cops, kept weekend violence down
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Weekend violence in Chicago was down this past weekend compared to the bloodbath the weekend before, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel argues it not just because 600 additi...
Cumulus Media Aug 13, 2018

Pharmacy techs indicted for stealing opioids
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — A federal indictment alleges two technicians at a Chicago pharmacy stole more than 56,000 pills of Hydrocodone and sold them for a profit. The indictmen...
Cumulus Media Aug 13, 2018