Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Ald. Burke marks 50 years in Chicago politics
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) City Council Finance Chairman, Ald. Ed Burke, marked 50 years in Chicago politics with a speech this afternoon at the City Club. Just about everybody who depends...
Mar 07, 2018
Rauner and Emanuel spar over guns at ribbon cutting ceremony
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Emanuel and Governor Rauner appeared together this morning for a ribbon cutting for AT&T’s renovated Call Center on the North Side. The ma...
Mar 07, 2018
Audit reveals budget office goof costing state $2.5M
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (SPRINGFIELD) A new state audit is revealing an embarrassing failure by Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration. Some are saying it stems from the very incompetence R...
Mar 07, 2018
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
