Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(Guinea, Africa) -- A Chicago-area pilot who continues to be held in Guinea after a routine fuel stop still hasn't had any help from the U.S. Government. Brad Schlenker is no longer in a Guinea jail b...

Chicago is promoting a new tax, on certain hotel stays in the city. City Council approved the so called Tourism Improvement District earlier this year, and it impacts bigger hotels in certain neighbor...

In downtown Chicago, people have been spotting Google's Waymo automated vehicles testing and mapping the Windy City's streets. For now, the autonomous vehicles must be driven by a human, as the indust...

The Chicago Bulls have fired executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley, the team announced Monday. Karnisovas and Eversley were hired to ru...

(CHICAGO) -- Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil rights leader and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, died Tuesday morning at the age of 84. "Our father was a servant leader - not only to our fam...

(CHICAGO) -- The Illinois Gaming Board, in coordination with the Illinois Attorney General's office, has issued more than 60 cease-and-desist letters to entities allegedly operating illegal online cas...

(Minneapolis, MN) -- Border Czar Tom Homan announced this morning that 700 agents will be withdrawn from Minnesota in exchange for illegal immigrants being held by local police. Homan says he has been...

(CHICAGO) -- Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th), a Democratic Socialist, announced his candidacy for Illinois' 4th Congressional District as an Independent candidate on Wednesday., launching a campaign ro...

(CHICAGO) -- With new tax code changes, the public must be extra careful to avoid scams when filing taxes this time. As tax season opened Monday, the Better Business Bureau warns the public about elab...

(CHICAGO) -- As Chicago remembers the 81st Anniversary of the the liberation of Jews at Auschwitz, leaders and organizations across the region are praising recent efforts by Ald. Raymond Lopez, Ald. D...