Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

Priebus says he won’t run for Ryan’s Wisconsin seat
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus took himself out of consideration Thursday as a candidate to replace retiring House Speaker Paul ...
Cumulus Media Apr 12, 2018

Dem Lawmakers Against Sending Troops To Border
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (SPRINGFIELD,IL) –– The Democratic controlled state senate has voted to adopt a resolution urging the governor not to comply with the request of President Don...
Cumulus Media Apr 12, 2018

Police Board member to review Rialmo case
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) On the question of whether Chicago Police officer Robert Rialmo should be fired for killing Antonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones, the Police Board is taking up the m...
Cumulus Media Apr 12, 2018

City Health Commissioner warns against cigarette alternatives
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The City Council License Committee is recommending that signs be posted in stores that sell tobacco, warning customers that cigarette alternatives are also dange...
Cumulus Media Apr 11, 2018

Mayor calls magazine story “morally repugnant”
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel is joining Police Supt. Eddie Johnson in denouncing Chicago Magazine for publishing a story containing interviews with both the suspect and th...
Cumulus Media Apr 11, 2018

Community group wants say in any Chicago Amazon deal
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The left-wing Grassroots Collaborative held a news conference to demand a Community Benefits Agreement before Jeff Bezos is allowed to choose Chicago for Amazon&...
Cumulus Media Apr 10, 2018

Emanuel using catfish against Rauner veto
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson are trying to drum up enough votes to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of the state gun dealers lice...
Cumulus Media Apr 09, 2018

Chicago Alderman wants school construction to proceed on former burial ground
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Northwest side Alderman Nick Sposato (36th) says construction of a new high school in his neighborhood should proceed, even though it is being built on an old bu...
Cumulus Media Apr 09, 2018

Federal funds to bolster election security may not be enough
By SARAH ZIMMERMAN, Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Last summer, with an important Illinois election season months away, Shelby County officials in central Illinois feared that their outdate...
Cumulus Media Apr 08, 2018

Speed limit on parts of Illinois tollway raised to 70 mph
CHICAGO (AP) - Drivers in a hurry in Chicago’s northwest suburbs might want to take the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway. The Illinois Tollway has raised the speed limit for passenger cars on...
Cumulus Media Apr 07, 2018