Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) The Democratic president of the Illinois Senate says Gov. Bruce Rauner delivered a “slap in the face” to immigrant crime victims with a veto of legislation to encour...

Audio/Video courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago high school principal is being criticized after telling parents that she favors a conservative dress code to prevent sexual abuse...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for mayor, challenger Willie Wilson has won a round. The State Board of Elections voted 8 to nothing to kill the charge that Willie was supposed to f...

A Yorkville police sergeant has been fired and two officers have been disciplined after one of them was recorded taunting a man and encouraging him to kill himself during a disturbance. Police were ca...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) At City Hall, the big borrowing to reduce city’s pension debt that the mayor’s chief financial officer is considering may be even bigger than adverti...