Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
New Property Tax Hike On The Way
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Yet another big property tax hike is on the way. It’s another $225 million dollar property tax hike for Chicago public schools. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is tryin...
Oct 11, 2017
Billions in Illinois bills not sent for payment
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois is chasing a moving target as it tries to dig out of the nation’s worst budget crisis, and $7.5 billion worth of unpaid bills hadn’t even been sent to the...
Oct 11, 2017
John Paul II relics to go on display in suburban Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - A lock of hair and other relics of former Pope John Paul II will go on display in suburban Chicago this week. The items, which also include John Paul’s personal rosary, will be av...
Oct 11, 2017
Weather: Cool and wet today, drier and warmer starting tomorrow afternoon
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Scott Lawrimore AFTER HEAVY OVERNIGHT RAINS, THINGS LET UP A LITTLE. CLEARING AND WARMER TEMPS START TOMORROW AFTERNOON. Today|Cloudy with occasional rain…mainly...
Oct 11, 2017
It’s official: Penny Pop Tax Repealed
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Cook County commissioners have voted to repeal the very unpopular penny-per-ounce pop tax. 15 to 1 was the vote to repeal, a veto-proof majority. Sean Morrison, ...
Oct 10, 2017
School Investigates “Blackface” Photo
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Officials at Oak Park and River Forest High School are investigating after a social media post appears to show a student in “blackface.” A caption o...
Oct 10, 2017
Will Preckwinkle veto the pop tax repealer?
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The penny per ounce pop tax comes up for a vote in the Finance Committee of the Cook County Board today, and the outcome is not in doubt, but what President Toni...
Oct 10, 2017
Crews work on Lake County museum before planned 2017 opening
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) - The final phase of work at Lake County museum has begun. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports that the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County is projected to open at t...
Oct 10, 2017
WEATHER: One to two inches of rainfall by tonight
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Mark Thibodeau ANOTHER SLOW MOVING FRONT ENTERS TUESDAY WITH SOME 1-2″ RAINFALL TOTALS BY TONIGHT…. Tonight | Increasing clouds with periods of showers lat...
Oct 10, 2017
Emanuel and Gutierrez push back on Trump’s wall
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) President Trump is demanding the border wall plus a crackdown on children fleeing Central America in exchange for letting undocumented Dreamers stay in the U.S. ...
Oct 09, 2017
