Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has submitted her retirement papers. They were filed Friday. Lewis tells the Chicago Tribune that, “I...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Heavy rains continued to pound the Chicago area on Friday morning. The Chicago Transit Authority announced it was suspending service on the Yellow Line because o...

Photo credit: BMW and DriveChicago By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 (CHICAGO) Automakers improve quality to a record level in an annual survey that looks at the number of problems experienced within the...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Attorney General Lisa Madigan Thursday filed a petition urging the Federal Communications Commission to deny the proposed merger between the Tribune Med...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for governor, Governor Rauner is applauding President Trump for his executive order ending more separations of children from their detained parents a...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Senator Dick Durbin is arguing that the Trump Executive Order “doesn’t solve the problem, but makes it worse.” Durbin took to the floor of the ...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting the first confirmed human case of West Nile virus in Illinois for 2018. A Chicago reside...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the Chicago Public Schools sex abuse scandal, two alleged victims of sexual predators gave emotional testimony and one of them blamed Mayor Emanuel. In a legi...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The proposal to replace the name of Balbo Dr. for the civil rights icon Ida B. Wells has stalled at City Hall. Ida B. Wells Dr was supposed to get a hearing here...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for mayor, challenger Garry McCarthy called reporters to the mayor’s office door at City Hall. McCarthy’s first day back to City Hall sin...