Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Another Gacy Victim ID’d
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Another one of John Wayne Gacy’s victims has been identified decades after his remains were found under the serial killer’s Norwood Park Tow...
Jul 19, 2017
Racist emails by city water employees draws reaction from Black Caucus chairman
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The revelation of racist emails by a supervisor and others in the city water department is drawing reaction from the chairman of the City Council’s Black C...
Jul 19, 2017
At City Hall, if you gotta go, you gotta go
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) At City Hall, the proposal to compel businesses to let people who’ve really gotta go use their restrooms without having to buy anything, may be unnecessary...
Jul 19, 2017
Roskam criticizes Republican Senators on healthcare
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) West Suburban Republican Congressman Peter Roskam was on WLS Wednesday morning to criticize his fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate for the failure of the GOP ...
Jul 19, 2017
WEATHER: More storms, higher temps
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Scott Lawrimore WARM AND HUMID WITH PM STORMS LATE THIS WEEK…..TEMPS EDGING UP TO THE LOW 90s…… Today | Partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm...
Jul 19, 2017
Madigan Moves On Travel Ban
FILE – In this Aug. 21, 2014 file photo, Illinois Attorney Gen. Lisa Madigan speaks at a news conference, in Chicago. Madigan’s office has issued an opinion stating that privately transmit...
Jul 18, 2017
Former Hastert friend hopes saga almost over
CHICAGO (AP) - A former close friend of Dennis Hastert says he hopes the former U.S. House speaker’s release from prison means an end to the saga is close. Bob Evans was a coach at Yorkville Hig...
Jul 18, 2017
Hospital reopening after closure due to floods, power outage
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago hospital is reopening after being evacuated and closed last week due to power outages caused by flooding. Northwestern Medicine says in a statement that cli...
Jul 18, 2017
Madigan Takes On FCC
FILE – In this Aug. 21, 2014 file photo, Illinois Attorney Gen. Lisa Madigan speaks at a news conference, in Chicago. Madigan’s office has issued an opinion stating that privately transmit...
Jul 18, 2017
Illinois budget gives temporary fix for public universities
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A new Illinois budget will give public universities funding for the 2017-18 school year. The Chicago Tribune reports that this is the first time in two years that the state...
Jul 18, 2017
