Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Hospital evacuated after power outage, floods remains closed
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago hospital remains closed after being evacuated due to power outages caused by flooding. Northwestern Medicine says in a statement on its website that power w...
Jul 12, 2017
19 aquariums across US part of effort to reduce plastics
CHICAGO (AP) - Nineteen aquariums across the U.S. are partnering in an effort to reduce plastic pollution in the Great Lakes, rivers and oceans. The new Aquarium Conservation Partnership announced Mon...
Jul 12, 2017
Group touts early success with new Chicago crime hotline
CHICAGO (AP) - An anti-crime group in Chicago says a new crime hotline established in May has generated more than 350 tips deemed credible enough to pass on to law enforcement. The Chicago Crime Commi...
Jul 12, 2017
2nd bidder steps forward for Chicago Sun Times
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A former Chicago Alderman says he has put together an investor group to try and buy the Chicago Sun Times. Former 43rd Ward Alderman Edwin Eisendrath says he and...
Jul 11, 2017
Indiana governor, state GOP form joint fundraising effort
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has started a new entity to raise money for his campaign committee and the state Republican Party. The Team Holcomb political action committee that...
Jul 11, 2017
Race to debut in honor of Illinois cyclist who died in crash
ELGIN, Ill. (AP) - A new bicycle race will debut in Illinois named after a cyclist who died two years ago in an accident with a vehicle. The Dennis Jurs Memorial Race is scheduled for July 18 in Elgin...
Jul 11, 2017
Rauner rejects treasurer’s call to back budget
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office is rejecting calls from the Democratic state treasurer to stave off fiscal crisis with personal visits to New York bond houses. Treas...
Jul 11, 2017
Emanuel calls Rauner “Governor Roadblock”
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Illinois may have a budget, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor Bruce Rauner are still fighting. The Governor is expected to veto a bill on how state school aid ...
Jul 10, 2017
Activists charged after banner hung at Chicago’s Trump Tower
CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors have brought felony charges against four of six Greenpeace activists accused of unfurling a banner from Trump Tower in Chicago to protest the president’s stance on glo...
Jul 10, 2017
Judge tosses suit by consumer angered by ointment in tube
CHICAGO (AP) - Anyone who has ever struggled to get a last bit of toothpaste or other substance out of a tube may have pulled for an Illinois woman who literally tried to make a federal case out of ju...
Jul 10, 2017
