Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
A lighter moment from 9/11 – courtesy of Mayor Daley
By Bill Cameron (CHICAGO) On the less-serious side, Bill Cameron remembers how 9-11 produced one of Mayor Daley’s greatest hits! Just a few weeks after 9-11-2001, Mayor Daley was asked how Chica...
Sep 11, 2018
Jury selection underway in Van Dyke trial
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Jury selection is underway in the trial of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is charged with shooting to death teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014...
Sep 10, 2018
Declining Chicago taxi business banking on ride-share limits
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago’s declining taxi industry is hoping for some legislative help as it struggles to survive in the age of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Almost half the city̵...
Sep 08, 2018
AG Madigan sues over migratory birds
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and seven other attorneys general Friday announced a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Interior for narrowing the ...
Sep 08, 2018
Woods calls Nike Kaepernick ad a ‘beautiful spot’
By DAN GELSTON, AP Sports Writer NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) - Tiger Woods endorsed Nike’s latest “Just Do It” ad narrated by Colin Kaepernick with a message nearly as succinct. “...
Sep 07, 2018
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
