Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
J.D Power Survey, Road Trip Vehicles, and the BMW X2 on Drive Chicago Saturday
Photo credit: BMW and DriveChicago By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 (CHICAGO) Automakers improve quality to a record level in an annual survey that looks at the number of problems experienced within the...
Jun 22, 2018
AG Madigan Opposed To Sinclair – Tribune Deal
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Attorney General Lisa Madigan Thursday filed a petition urging the Federal Communications Commission to deny the proposed merger between the Tribune Med...
Jun 21, 2018
Rauner applauds Trump on immigration process executive order
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for governor, Governor Rauner is applauding President Trump for his executive order ending more separations of children from their detained parents a...
Jun 21, 2018
Durbin says Trump order “makes it worse”
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Senator Dick Durbin is arguing that the Trump Executive Order “doesn’t solve the problem, but makes it worse.” Durbin took to the floor of the ...
Jun 21, 2018
Chicago Woman Contracts West Nile
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting the first confirmed human case of West Nile virus in Illinois for 2018. A Chicago reside...
Jun 20, 2018
CPS Sex scandal: Alleged victim blames Mayor Emanuel
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the Chicago Public Schools sex abuse scandal, two alleged victims of sexual predators gave emotional testimony and one of them blamed Mayor Emanuel. In a legi...
Jun 20, 2018
Proposal to rename Balbo Drive stalls at City Hall
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The proposal to replace the name of Balbo Dr. for the civil rights icon Ida B. Wells has stalled at City Hall. Ida B. Wells Dr was supposed to get a hearing here...
Jun 20, 2018
McCarthy compares Emanuel’s policies to separating families at Mexican border
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for mayor, challenger Garry McCarthy called reporters to the mayor’s office door at City Hall. McCarthy’s first day back to City Hall sin...
Jun 20, 2018
Rauner denounces policy of separating families
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Rauner is joining the chorus of leaders denouncing the Trump administration for separating children from their illegal immigrant parents at the Mexican ...
Jun 19, 2018
Rauner and Emanuel laud each other at U of I announcement
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Rauner, Mayor Emanuel and other dignitaries gathered in the South Loop to formally announce the new University of Illinois Digital Partners Institute fo...
Jun 19, 2018
