Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

CHICAGO (AP) - A man with a loaded handgun, wearing a bullet proof vest and carrying a bag of SWAT equipment authorities believe was stolen from New York City police has been arrested at Chicago’...

(ATLANTA, GA) Loyola-Chicago continued its improbable postseason run, beating Kansas State 78-62 on Saturday night to advance to its first Final Four in 55 years. Extending its winning streak to 14 ga...

By JOHN O’CONNOR, AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration hasn’t recouped $76 million in overpayments to private Medicaid-program insurers dat...

[van id=”us/2018/03/24/march-for-our-lives-aerials-orig-llr.cnn”] Thousands took to the streets and demanded gun control in the nationwide March for Our Lives movement.   CHICAGO (AP)...

By Bill Cameron (CHICAGO) Here on the day after former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced for mayor, Mayor Emanuel’s campaign is out with a new web ad attacking McCarthy. So ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the state sexual harassment scandal, whistle-blower Alaina Hampton has filed a federal lawsuit against two of Speaker Madigan’s political operations: th...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Former police Superintendent Garry McCarthy is officially declaring that he is running for Mayor of Chicago next year, challenging the incumbent Mayor who fired ...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) An 81-year old woman hailed a cab on Chicago’s north side last month so that she could visit her husband at a nursing home. Cook County Prosecutors say ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Rauner’s challenger JB Pritzker today introduced five people he says Rauner has failed. One of them attempted to connect Rauner to veteran suicide...

By Veronica Stracqualursi Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would “beat the hell out of” President Donald Trump if they were in high school over his crude comments about women. ̶...