Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Lake County uses gambling revenue to fight gambling addiction
Video gambling machines are often used to fill holes in the budget or pay staff salaries, it can be tricky if the income isn’t reliable, as governments learned when casino revenue started to dro...
Aug 08, 2018
State Rep. La Shawn Ford “it’s the government’s job to make sure communities are equal”
Mike Opelka is in for Big John and Ramblin’ Ray. He talks with State Rep La Shawn Ford, asking about his comments towards Chicago’s violence. Saying how it’s the government...
Aug 08, 2018
Mayoral candidate McCarthy backs away from Trump criticism, says Emanuel’s ‘not doing his job’
Mayoral candidate Garry McCarthy went to Fox News again Tuesday morning, where he withdrew from his earlier criticisms of President Donald Trump while continuing to pound Mayor Rahm Emanuel for his ma...
Aug 08, 2018
Lawmakers respond to hate filled leaflet
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (WOODRIDGE, Ill.) - State lawmakers are speaking out against white supremacist/anti-Semitic leaflets that have been found in Woodridge. Other neighboring Chicago-area com...
Aug 06, 2018
Accused Ear Biter to Remain In Custody
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Bail has been denied for a Chicago man who is facing felony charges after, police say, he punched a stranger and bit off part of his ear. Donnell Young, 5...
Aug 06, 2018
Supporters say they’re step closer to Chicago term limits
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) At City Hall, former Governor Pat Quinn filed his petitions at the deadline to ask Chicago voters in November if they want a limit of two terms on Chicago mayors...
Aug 06, 2018
Johnson worries Chicagoans think street violence is ‘normal’
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Are most Chicagoans REALLY concerned about street violence? Bill Cameron says even Police Supt Eddie Johnson has his doubts. Street violence happens so often, Ed...
Aug 06, 2018
Vallas proposes re-hiring detectives to combat city shootings
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson are calling on people to come forward and tell police who’s responsible for the 11 murders among 74 shoot...
Aug 06, 2018
Emanuel and Johnson respond to weekend shootings
By Bill Cameron (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson are making an impassioned plea for anyone who knows anything about 11 murders in 73 shootings over the week to come forward....
Aug 06, 2018
Report says 73 shot, eleven killed over violent Chicago weekend.
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The Chicago Tribune is reporting that 73 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, with at least eleven of them killed. The Tribune says 40 of the victims we...
Aug 06, 2018
