Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By COLLIN BINKLEY and JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - Students and alumni at some of the nation’s top universities are urging their schools to reconsider admissions policies t...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner says a $1 billion tax cut should be the top priority for this year’s legislative session. The Republican said Wednesday it could be achieved by changin...

    Chicago Police Cmdr. Paul Bauer gave up his life in service to the city, and his brothers and sisters in blue were paying tribute to their longtime friend Wednesday morning, a day after ...

By Andrew Dunn The woman primed to become the first sitting senator to give birth in office wants to change Senate rules to better accommodate future mothers. In an interview that aired Wednesday on P...

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - Two more confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease were found among residents of a veterans home in western Illinois where the illness has been linked to the deaths of 13 peop...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Latest on Democratic campaign worker’s complaint of sexual harassment by a supervisor. House Speaker Michael Madigan denies that a long-time campaign worker wouldn’t hav...

(CHICAGO) A high-ranking Chicago Police officer was shot fatally Tuesday afternoon at the Thompson Center downtown, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. The officer was shot by an "assailant" while ass...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — The woman who accused a former political consultant of House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) says party officials took too long to respond to her compl...

By Lauren Fox   The Senate will embark on a free-wheeling immigration debate this week, testing the limits of whether there is still a political center on the contentious issue in the era of Pres...

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - Courts across Illinois have had about a month to adjust to the requirements of the new bail reform law that took effect Jan. 1. Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the Bail Reform Act in the ...