Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
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
Chicago fires back at Feds’ request in sanctuary city fight
CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago is telling the federal government that it is complying with a request for documents related to the battle with President Donald Trump’s administration over the...
Feb 25, 2018
No bail for Chicago father charged in 2-year-old son’s death
CHICAGO (AP) - A judge has ordered the father of a 2-year-old found stabbed to death in Chicago held without bond on first-degree murder charges. Cook County prosecutors said Friday that 37-year-old R...
Feb 24, 2018
Lipinski: ‘I’m not that vulnerable.’
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Southwest side Congressman Dan Lipinski is in a tough March 20th Democratic primary fight with challenger Marie Newman. However, Lipinski doesn’t be...
Feb 23, 2018
O’Connor uses Ike at Normandy analogy to defend Madigan
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the sexual harassment scandal swirling around IL House Speaker Mike Madigan, two leading Democrats are arguing against the calls for Madigan step down as stat...
Feb 23, 2018
