Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
WEATHER: Abundance sunshine in days ahead
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Scott Lawrimore Today|Sun and a few passing clouds. High 69F. Winds ENE at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight|Clear. Low 53F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow|Abundant sunshine. ...
Sep 01, 2017
Rauner signs school funding legislation, gets thanks from mayor
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Landmark state school funding legislation was signed into law this afternoon by Governor Rauner here in Chicago at Ebinger Elementary School. With the stroke of ...
Aug 31, 2017
Bloomberg chips in $3M more to support beverage tax
By Bil lCameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making another big buy of advertising in support of Cook County’s new and controversial penny-per-ounce tax on s...
Aug 31, 2017
Group formed to ensure neighborhoods boosted by Obama Center
CHICAGO (AP) - Former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will head a community economic development organization created to ensure neighborhoods will benefit from the planned Obama Presidential Cent...
Aug 31, 2017
New Lennox hospital breach exposes 9,000 patients’ data
NEW LENOX, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois hospital says a data breach exposed patient information of as many as 9,000 people. Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox also says there’s no evidence that shows...
Aug 31, 2017
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
