Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
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...
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...
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...
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&...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Apr 07, 2018
Illinois school districts to receive additional funding
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois school districts will receive about $395 million in additional funding that was approved in the state budget last summer. The Illinois State Board of Education sent v...
Apr 07, 2018
Chicago school construction could unearth human remains
CHICAGO (AP) - Construction workers building a school in a northwest Chicago neighborhood are working carefully to avoid disturbing human remains possibly lying underneath the site. The $70 million Re...
Apr 06, 2018
