Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

Burke: maintains attendance record, will snub Pope
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News At City Hall, Ald Ed Burke has made an interesting decision about whether to be part of an audience with the Pope in Rome on Wednesday. Burke’s wife Anne is co-found...
Cumulus Media Jun 26, 2018

Ex-priest who abused child allowed access to Chicago schools
FILE – In this Sept. 26, 2016 file photo Eric Johnson pauses during a news conference in front of his childhood portrait and a portrait of former priest Father Bruce Wellems at an office in Chic...
Cumulus Media Jun 23, 2018

Karen Lewis stepping down, vows not to be quiet about Rahm
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis says she’s stepping down and retiring because of her continuing battle with brain cancer, but Bill Cameron say...
Cumulus Media Jun 22, 2018

Karen Lewis To Retire
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has submitted her retirement papers. They were filed Friday. Lewis tells the Chicago Tribune that, “I...
Cumulus Media Jun 22, 2018

Flooding affects Chicago area
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Heavy rains continued to pound the Chicago area on Friday morning. The Chicago Transit Authority announced it was suspending service on the Yellow Line because o...
Cumulus Media Jun 22, 2018

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...
Cumulus Media 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...
Cumulus Media 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...
Cumulus Media 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 ...
Cumulus Media 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...
Cumulus Media Jun 20, 2018






