Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(CHICAGO) The video of the police killing of Maurice Granton has one of the community activist candidates for mayor talking about a new approach to police accountability. Ja’Mal Green says each ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A sticking point has arisen in the negotiations for a federal consent decree to oversee police misconduct. The sticking point is a new requirement on cops to wri...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) At City Hall, Mayor Emanuel is wise-cracking about his challenger Willie Wilson handing out cash at church last Sunday. Willie Wilson has been handing out cash f...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Mayoral Candidate and businessman Willie Wilson appeared on WLS-AM Wednesday morning to defend his practice of handing out cash to random people who need...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for governor, one of the candidates for mayor – Willie Wilson – has put Governor Bruce Rauner on the spot. Willie Wilson likes to give aw...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (OAK PARK, IL) If you grew up in west suburban Oak Park there are some names you recognize: Ernest Hemingway, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Val Camilletti. When the recor...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson says he wasn’t trying to buy anyone’s vote when he handed out close to $200,000 to churchgoers. The millionaire businessman says Sund...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — University of Chicago police have sent out a safety alert after several pedestrians were robbed or attacked near campus. Since Friday, police say there ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Taping “Connected to Chicago with Bill Cameron” for Sunday night at 7, Erika Harold, the Republican candidate for Illinois Attorney General, went on ...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (WADSWORTH, Ill.) — After a fire caused some $3 million in damage at a pyramid home in suburban Wadsworth, the owners are thinking about rebuilding and are also war...