Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

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 &...

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...

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 ...

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...

  (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...

CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say a Chicago-area man died last fall from injuries suffered in a 2013 shooting on the city’s West Side. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Cook County medical exami...

CHICAGO (AP) - An Illinois sheriff is launching an email helpline to help people find an antidote drug used to revive opioid overdose victims. In a news release on Wednesday, Cook County Sheriff Tom D...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Bruce Rauner put a negative spin on the Amazon Headquarters bid because of our “corrupt” politics. Mayor Rahm Emanuel – in reaction to...

CHICAGO (AP) - New data from the University of Illinois’ expanded background-checks policy show that the school withdrew 35 job offers across three campuses last year. The (Champaign) News-Gazet...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (ATLANTA) — Illinois has again made a list that most wouldn’t brag about. The Orkin Pest Control company has released their list for top 50 cities with bed bu...