Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Rauner to sign school funding bill, gets tax credits for private school scholarships
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Today, Governor Rauner will be signing the landmark school funding bill into law. Decades in the making and fully satisfying neither side, but Governor Rauner sa...
Aug 31, 2017
Barbara Byrd-Bennett arrives at West Virginia federal prison
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has reported to Alderson Federal Prison Camp, a minimum security facility in West Virginia. Byrd-Bennett reported Monday to serve ...
Aug 31, 2017
Rauner Likely To Sign School Funding Bill Thursday
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Gov. Bruce Rauner will likely sign the recently passed school funding bill tomorrow, alongside Cardinal Blase Cupich. Meanwhile, the Illinois Secretary of Education...
Aug 30, 2017
Former Fugitive’s Lawyer: “He was trying to get away from gangs”
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) A Chicago area man who was on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list and was wanted in the killing of a 15-year-old boy is back in C...
Aug 30, 2017
New locomotives expected to speed Illinois rail service
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Transportation officials say faster and more reliable locomotives combined with improved signals and tracks will cut the time it takes an Amtrak passenger train to run from Chi...
Aug 30, 2017
US transportation secretary to hear about Indiana projects
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - The federal transportation secretary is set to visit northern Indiana and attend events regarding an Indiana Toll Road improvement project and planned upgrades to the South Sho...
Aug 30, 2017
AG Madigan sues Chicago over police reforms
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the ongoing police brutality scandal, Mayor Emanuel has decided to work together with Attorney General Lisa Madigan to get federal court supervision of reform...
Aug 29, 2017
Rauner defies right wing of GOP
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Governor Bruce Rauner today signed two bills into law that progressives have crusaded for. Rauner defied the right-wing of his party by signing the Trust Act. It...
Aug 28, 2017
Wet weather to start the week, sunshine to end it
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Ray Stagich SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN TO START THE WEEK Today|Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hi...
Aug 28, 2017
Rauner OKs bill easing gender-ID change for transgender people
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a plan making it easier for transgender people to change the gender listed on their birth certificates. The Republican signed the measure into law...
Aug 27, 2017
