Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Chicago using new technology to count Millennium Park visits
CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago is using new technology to count visitors to Millennium Park and its numbers show 12.9 million visited the lakefront park in the second half of last year. Mayor Rahm...
Apr 07, 2017
Illinois House approves new stopgap budget plan
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois House wants to tap incoming but unallocated revenue to relieve struggling universities and human services. The House voted 64-45 Thursday to authorize spending $8...
Apr 07, 2017
AG Madigan Sues Joliet Woman
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against a Joliet woman alleging she defrauded at least four Illinois residents out of more than $10,000 for unlice...
Apr 06, 2017
ISP: 138 Vehicles Off The Road In Special Operation
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Illinois State Police say they conducted over 1,400 inspections of big rigs in an operation carried out in honor of a trooper killed when his squad was struck by a ...
Apr 06, 2017
Don Rickles, comedy great, dies at 90
Comedian Don Rickles responds during an interview in New York, May 18, 2007, about his memoir “Rickles’ Book” (AP Photo/Richard Drew) By Lisa Respers France Don Rickles...
Apr 06, 2017
Congressman Kinzinger calls for air strikes against Syria
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) South Suburban Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger is calling for U.S. airstrikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom Kinzinger blames fo...
Apr 06, 2017
WEATHER – Cloudy and windy with rain ending for the afternoon. High around 50F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Todd Borek WLS-AM April 6th, 2017 As a powerful area of low pressure drifts farther to our east, strong northeast winds will give the Chicago and Indiana Lakeshores floo...
Apr 06, 2017
17 Illinois school districts suing state over funding
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Seventeen Illinois school districts claim in a lawsuit that the state has failed to adequately fund public education. Superintendents for the central and southern Illinois dis...
Apr 05, 2017
McCarthy on Emanuel
Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Former Chicago Police Supt Garry McCarthy was on the attack against Mayor Emanuel today during an interview here on WLS with Big John and Ray. McCarthy called Mayor...
Apr 05, 2017
Chicago feds: Top Mexican cop leaked probe info to drug cartels
(CHICAGO) Federal authorities in Chicago have charged a man who once served as the highest-ranking member of the Mexican Federal Police's sensitive investigations unit with leaking key information to ...
Apr 05, 2017
