Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Lake County (IL) raising minimum tobacco age to 21
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois county is to become the first in the state to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to 21 years. The Waukegan News-Sun ...
Sep 14, 2017
“Fiesty” Debate At City Hall On Pop Tax
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) No vote was taken today on the proposal to repeal the Cook County penny per ounce pop tax, but there was plenty of public testimony for and against it. Nearly th...
Sep 13, 2017
Developer Tries To Lure Amazon
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Could Amazon locate a proposed headquarters on the site of the old Finkl Steel site? One developer is trying to lure them that way. Sterling Bay today r...
Sep 13, 2017
A Poor Getaway Plan Lands Armed Robbery Suspects Behind Bars
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (LAKE BLUFF) The Verizon Store on Waukegan Road in Lake Bluff was robbed at gunpoint Friday afternoon. Lake Bluff police say two suspects tied up the store clerks a...
Sep 13, 2017
City of Kenosha says out of Foxconn hunt
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The city of Kenosha says it’s no longer in the hunt to land a Foxconn plant. Mayor John Antaramian wrote to Gov. Scott Walker on Monday that the legislative bill being considere...
Sep 13, 2017
Boykin hints a of run against Preckwinkle
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Here on the day before the Cook County Board considers repealing the controversial penny-per-ounce pop tax, there was a rally downtown in favor of repeal. Big So...
Sep 12, 2017
Flights To Florida Slowly Resuming
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — American Airlines says that most of their flights to areas affected by Hurricane Irma are resuming on a limited schedule Tuesday and Wednesday. Many fli...
Sep 12, 2017
Durbin responds to criticism in questioning of Catholic judicial nominee.
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Catholic groups and other conservatives have criticized Illinois Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, for his questioning of a Catholic Notre Dame Law Professor,...
Sep 12, 2017
Trial to begin for woman charged with killing 2 children
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A judge is set to consider the case of a suburban Chicago woman accused of fatally stabbing her 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting five years ago. The (Arlin...
Sep 12, 2017
Jury being selected in Slender Man stabbing case
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - Jurors are being selected in a southeastern Wisconsin courtroom to decide the mental competency of a girl accused of stabbing a classmate in 2014 to please a fictional hor...
Sep 12, 2017
