Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
University of Illinois graduate student workers go on strike
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Graduate student workers at the University of Illinois have gone on strike after 11 months of unsuccessful talks with administrators on a new contract. Picket lines of chanting ...
Feb 27, 2018
Emanuel: Vote ‘no’ on candidates who are against gun control
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Gun control votes are coming up in the legislature in Springfield this week, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel told a hundred new police recruits how they and others should...
Feb 27, 2018
Police misconduct settlement called “crazy
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO, IL) In the City Council Finance Committee, the latest legal settlement for police misconduct is being called “crazy.” This is a case of taxpayers pay...
Feb 26, 2018
Mundelein Students Arrested For Alleged Threat
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Two Mundelein High School students have been arrested for allegedly making online threats against the school. School officials say a student posted a ph...
Feb 26, 2018
Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities
By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing comp...
Feb 25, 2018
Auction house sells pen used by Lincoln for $41,000
CHICAGO (AP) - A fountain pen that was given to Abraham Lincoln while he was president has sold for more than $41,000. Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles says in a news release that the pe...
Feb 25, 2018
Warren Buffett is stepping down from Kraft Heinz board
CHICAGO (AP) - Warren Buffett is stepping down from the board of directors of Kraft Heinz Co. The Chicago-based food and beverage giant says the 87-year-old billionaire investor will retire from its b...
Feb 25, 2018
Chicago fires back at Feds’ request in sanctuary city fight
CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago is telling the federal government that it is complying with a request for documents related to the battle with President Donald Trump’s administration over the...
Feb 25, 2018
No bail for Chicago father charged in 2-year-old son’s death
CHICAGO (AP) - A judge has ordered the father of a 2-year-old found stabbed to death in Chicago held without bond on first-degree murder charges. Cook County prosecutors said Friday that 37-year-old R...
Feb 24, 2018
Lipinski: ‘I’m not that vulnerable.’
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Southwest side Congressman Dan Lipinski is in a tough March 20th Democratic primary fight with challenger Marie Newman. However, Lipinski doesn’t be...
Feb 23, 2018
