Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Red Cross: Safeguard Against Soaring Temps
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — The American Red Cross of Chicago and Northern Illinois wants to remind everyone to be safe in the heat as temperatures promise to rise this weekend. Su...
Jun 16, 2018
Lake County Warns Of Jury Duty Scam
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (WAUKEGAN, IL) — Lake County’s 19th Judicial Circuit Court's Jury Commission says it has received notification of several occurrences where individuals had be...
Jun 15, 2018
Musk: High speed transit tunnel travel safer than roads
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) One of the interesting issues with Elon Musk’s high speed O'Hare to Downtown transit tunnel proposal is safety. Doing 150 miles an hour in a tunnel doesn&#...
Jun 15, 2018
Auto Sales, The New Ram 1500, and Father’s Day Auto Gifts
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) SUV and truck sales have been fueling the auto industry’s success and our “Drive Chicago” show, which airs on Saturday mornings, takes a...
Jun 15, 2018
Emanuel plans for high speed express train to O’Hare
This undated artist’s rendering provided by The Boring Company, shows an electric public transportation vehicle that is part of a proposed high-speed underground transportation system that will ...
Jun 14, 2018
Gutierrez: “Cruel kind of evil separating a child from their mother.”
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Separating children from their parents who are seeking asylum at the Mexican border has become a gigantic election year issue, and a Chicago congressman is at th...
Jun 14, 2018
Warning From A Safety Group As Temps rise
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) The National Safety Council has released a report saying 42 children died as a result of being left in hot cars last year–up from 39 in 2016. To kee...
Jun 13, 2018
Madigan question raises Emanuel’s ire
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) When asked about Speaker Mike Madigan and the Springfield sexual harassment scandal, Mayor Emanuel went-off on a reporter Tuesday afternoon at City Hall. The que...
Jun 12, 2018
Parkland, FL high school students oppose Emanuel’s new police and fire academi
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Two students from the Parkland, Florida high school where 17 students were killed joined Good Kids, Mad City protesters to oppose Mayor Emanuel’s new $95 m...
Jun 11, 2018
Madigan names all-woman Democratic party panel amid scandal
By JOHN O’CONNOR, AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The powerful head of the Illinois Democratic Party appointed an all-woman panel to choose its next executive director and the state...
Jun 10, 2018
