Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Illinois lawmakers want investigation after lottery report
CHICAGO (AP) - State lawmakers want an investigation after a newspaper found the Illinois Lottery sold instant tickets but didn’t hand out many cash grand prizes. The Chicago Tribune reports ) t...
Dec 13, 2016
Rauner acts on clemency requests.
(CHICAGO) Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner says he has cleared a backlog of clemency requests left over from the administrations of Governors Rod Blagojevich and Pat Quinn. Rauner told “The Big Jo...
Dec 13, 2016
Fear of Trump pledges linger at Our Lady of Guadalupe feast
CHICAGO (AP) - From small parishes to big cathedrals, Catholics observing the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the U.S. say the celebration is taking on a different tone this year. Heckel Villa (VEE-...
Dec 13, 2016
Atheist activist, Green candidate Rob Sherman dies in plane crash
Robert Sherman was killed when a single-engine plane crashed overnight in Marengo. | Network Video Productions (MARENGO) Rob Sherman, who died over the weekend in a crash of his small plane in ...
Dec 13, 2016
Snow plows head back to streets ahead of overnight snowfall
(CHICAGO) More than 200 snow plows will be deployed Monday night across Chicago as forecasters predict up to another inch of snow by Tuesday morning, following the 7 inches that piled up in this past ...
Dec 13, 2016
Cop who fatally shot Kajuan Raye was under investigation in 2004
(CHICAGO) Chicago Police Officer John Poulos was cleared of the fatal shooting of an unarmed burglary suspect in 2013, and he is under investigation in the fatal shooting last month of an unarmed teen...
Dec 13, 2016
Texting schemer to plead guilty to role in Heather Mack case
(CHICAGO) Robert Bibbs knew the text messages would be his undoing from the start. When the news broke in 2014 that authorities had arrested Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer for the murder of Chicago s...
Dec 13, 2016
Former pharmacy execs allegedly paid bribes to Illinois doctor
(CHICAGO) At first, the Chicago pharmacy sales rep had serious doubts about her ability to persuade a particular doctor in her region to start prescribing her company's powerful painkiller. "He is ext...
Dec 13, 2016
Schock Pleads Not Guilty
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Former U.S. Congressman Aaron Schock is scheduled to go on trial, early in the new year, after pleading not guilty to misusing government and campaign mon...
Dec 12, 2016
Plans moving forward for massive real estate project on Near North side
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) There is another step forward for a huge real estate development where a huge factory once stood on the Near North Side of Chicago. Crain’s Chicago busines...
Dec 12, 2016
