Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
What’s fresh at McDonald’s? The beef in some burgers
By JOSEPH PISANI and TERESA CRAWFORD NEW YORK (AP) - The Quarter Pounder is getting a fresh makeover. McDonald’s said Tuesday that it is serving Quarter Pounders with fresh beef rather than froz...
Mar 07, 2018
Ald Sawyer: Look at term limit for Speaker Madigan
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) An influential voice from the black community is saying it’s time to take a look at term limits for legislative leaders in Springfield like the embattled S...
Mar 06, 2018
Emanuel hands out more grants on south side
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Emanuel has handed out a second round of Neighborhood Opportunity Grants on the south side. Developers who share the wealth get to build bigger buildings. ...
Mar 06, 2018
Iconic Chicago radio station WLUP to be sold
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) It is the end of an era in Chicago radio. Merlin Media, the owner of iconic Chicago rock station The Loop, has agreed to sell the station to a Christian Broadcas...
Mar 06, 2018
Cabbie Charged With Attacking Woman
[Photo credit: Murasbek Elchiev – Chicago Police] By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A cab driver is due in bond court today on charges that he sexually abused a woman who got into his ca...
Mar 06, 2018
Rauner administration now aims to rebuild Quincy
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration now says it plans to rebuild dormitories at the Quincy veterans’ home where Legionnaires’ disease continues to be a proble...
Mar 06, 2018
Judge issues gag order in ex-professor’s Chicago murder case
CHICAGO (AP) - Court records show that a judge has issued a gag order on attorneys in the case of a former Northwestern University professor and British man charged in a fatal stabbing in Chicago last...
Mar 05, 2018
Police investigate why student gunned down his parents
By RICK CALLAHAN, Associated Press Investigators were trying to figure out why a Central Michigan University student charged with fatally shooting his parents acted so strangely the day before the kil...
Mar 05, 2018
Climatologist: Illinois sees wettest February on record
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Illinois climate experts say the state saw its wettest February on record this year. Illinois state climatologist Jim Angel says statewide average precipitation was 5 inches las...
Mar 05, 2018
Police: Suspect in college campus shooting apprehended
By ED WHITE and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) - A 19-year-old student suspected of killing his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory before running from ca...
Mar 03, 2018
