Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

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...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Rauner is joining the chorus of leaders denouncing the Trump administration for separating children from their illegal immigrant parents at the Mexican ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Rauner, Mayor Emanuel and other dignitaries gathered in the South Loop to formally announce the new University of Illinois Digital Partners Institute fo...

The county budget briefing was held behind this closed door with an unexplained office title. (Photo Credit – Bill Cameron WLS-AM News)   By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Cook County ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Congressman Mike Quigley says President Trump has made our nation “sick.” At the City Club, Quigley argued that Trump policies like aggravati...