Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Carl Buddig to open new facility outside Chicago this spring
MONTGOMERY, Ill. (AP) - Carl Buddig & Co. says it has purchased the former Butterball facility in Montgomery outside Chicago that has been vacant since July. Officials with the Homewood-based lunc...
Jan 23, 2018
Senate vote seen as a defeat for Sen. Dick Durbin
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Democrats caved after the fierce finger pointing was beginning to look bad for their side. On the floor of the Senate, Dick Durbin had this message for the Dream...
Jan 22, 2018
Kennedy compliments Rauner, again
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Democrat candidate for Governor, Chris Kennedy, is complimenting Republican Gov Bruce Rauner AGAIN. Last week Kennedy said Rauner should at least be applauded fo...
Jan 22, 2018
Report: Cook County Board members not showing up for meetings.
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHCAGO) A number of Cook County board members have missed hundreds of meetings in the past five years. The joint investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC7 Ch...
Jan 22, 2018
Dense fog to continue into Sunday evening
Dense fog is expected through Sunday evening in the Chicago area. The National Weather Service issued a dense fog advisory about 8:40 a.m. Sunday, that will remain in effect until 9 p.m. In some areas...
Jan 21, 2018
Rauner order bars lawmakers from property-tax appeals
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner has issued a ban on legislators financially benefiting from state property-tax appeals. Rauner issued an executive order Friday calling such representation &...
Jan 21, 2018
Possible sighting of cougar in DuPage County
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is trying to determine if there is anything to reports of a cougar being spotted in a DuPage County forest preserve. The Nape...
Jan 20, 2018
Despite Blago tapes, Pritzker defends his public service career
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Democrat J B Pritzker is defending himself again as Republican Governor Bruce Rauner is about to play FBI wiretaps of Pritzker and the now-imprisoned ex-Gov Rod ...
Jan 19, 2018
Jimmy John’s To Pull Sprouts Over Salmonella Cases
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (SPRINGFIELD) - The Illinois Department of Public Health along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and other state and l...
Jan 19, 2018
Lawyer for cop in LaQuan McDonald killing set to hire polling firm.
(CHICAGO) Lawyers for Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke plan to hire a polling company to gather data for a likely motion to move Van Dyke's trial for the murder of Laquan McDonald out of C...
Jan 19, 2018
