Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Trump reaches deal with Boeing on new presidential planes
By ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has reached an informal deal with Chicago-based Boeing to provide the next generation presidential aircraft, the White House s...
Feb 27, 2018
Gutierrez plays ‘race card’ in immigration reform fight
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the immigration reform fight, Chicago Congressman Luis Gutierrez is playing the race card today. Gutierrez says he wants to wortk with Republicans on immigrat...
Feb 27, 2018
Chicago aldermen back $20M payout in ‘code of silence’ case
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago City Council committee has approved a $20 million payout to the families of two men who were killed when a drunken off-duty police officer slammed into their car nine years ag...
Feb 27, 2018
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
