Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
O’Hare gets EPA grant to reduce carbon emissions
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport will receive a $640,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to buy zero emissions ground support equipment. City of...
Feb 13, 2018
Garry McCarthy inching closer to running for Mayor
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Former Chicago top cop Garry McCarthy is sounding more and more like he is going to run for Mayor next year against Rahm Emanuel, the man who fired McCarthy in 2...
Feb 12, 2018
Only 3 doctors have joined wage-discrimination lawsuit
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Attorneys for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine indicate they will ask a judge to dismiss part of a lawsuit alleging wage discrimination because few female docto...
Feb 12, 2018
Sheriff warns of fake IRS agent phone scam in Cook County
(CHICAGO) The Cook County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of a scammer posing as an IRS agent over the phone. The automated phone call warns of an arrest warrant that can be resolved by calling ...
Feb 12, 2018
U of I team studying spread of information on social media
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - University of Illinois researchers are using a $4 million grant to study how information moves across social media, affecting people’s beliefs and shaping events. Computer Sc...
Feb 12, 2018
Powerful former Chicago union boss banished from Teamsters
CHICAGO (AP) - One of Chicago’s most powerful labor leaders before he was indicted on federal charges of extorting $325,000 from a film studio in the city has been banished from the Teamsters Un...
Feb 11, 2018
More snow – 1 to 3 inches possible – on the way tonight
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Jeff Eno NEXT ROUND OF LOW PRESSURE AND ACCUMULATING SNOW ON THE WAY TONIGHT….WE’VE SEEN 8 STRAIGHT DAYS OF ACCUMULATING SNOW Rest of Today|Generally cloud...
Feb 10, 2018
Transgender student appeals locker-room access ruling
PALATINE, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago-area transgender student has appealed a judge’s ruling denying her request for an injunction that would have granted her unrestricted access to the girls’ l...
Feb 10, 2018
Pharma donates NARCAN to Illinois Dept. of Health
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — AptarGroup and Adapt Pharma has donated 4,000 doses of NARCAN nasal spray to the Illinois Department of Public Health, with another 1,000 doses schedule...
Feb 10, 2018
Storm could bring up to a foot of snow to Chicago area
CHICAGO (AP) - A winter storm expected to move across the Midwest is forecast to bring between 6 and 10 inches of snow to northern Illinois, with more than a foot (1/3 meter) of snow in some areas. WA...
Feb 08, 2018
