Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Online Spending This Holiday Season Set to Hit Record $143.7B
Retailers are making the holiday season count- with six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas than last year- by already rolling out deals online. This holiday season’s online spending i...
Cumulus Media Oct 29, 2019
Chicago Teachers Strike Enters 2nd Week
Classes were once again cancelled on Monday as the Chicago teachers’ strike enters its second week. Monday marked eight days since 25,000 teachers walked off the job on Oct. 17 after working for...
Cumulus Media Oct 28, 2019
Apple’s next gen AirPods drop this week
Apple has just made it a little easier to ignore the real world. The tech giant Monday launched its newest incarnation of headphones. The Apple AirPods Pro are a premium version of their already popul...
Cumulus Media Oct 28, 2019
Alphabet makes play for Fitbit
The tech world might get even smaller with news that Google parent company Alphabet is looking to buy Fitbit. Reuters cites “sources familiar with the matter” who said Monday that the tech...
Cumulus Media Oct 28, 2019
Facebook employees hit back
Some of Facebook’s employees have officially taken issue with the social media platform’s ‘hands-off’ approach to political advertising. The New York Times reports it received ...
Cumulus Media Oct 28, 2019
Learner Driver Shows Up To Test In Stolen Car
A serial driving test flunkee found himself in lots of trouble on Wednesday, not only failing to secure a license once again, but then leaving in handcuffs. According to the West Midlands Police in En...
Cumulus Media Oct 24, 2019
Restaurant Fined For Sexist Menus
A high-end restaurant overlooking the water in Lima, Peru is under fire for handing out two sets of menus to couples out to dinner. Inside the men’s edition at La Rosa Nautica, prices for the di...
Cumulus Media Oct 24, 2019
DNA Test Find Half-Brothers Who Were Both Cops in Florida
Imagine taking a DNA test and finding out you have a sibling working in the same field as you…and in the same state! That’s what happened to 50-year-old Dave Stull. He’s a police ser...
Cumulus Media Oct 24, 2019
Late Rep. Elijah Cummings Honored At Capitol
Late Congressman Elijah Cummings was honored Thursday at the U.S. Capitol, lying in state in the building’s Statuary Hall. The longtime Maryland representative, who died last week at the age of ...
Cumulus Media Oct 24, 2019
Poll: 67% of Americans Believe Civil War is Imminent
Political discourse since the birth of the United States is nothing new but according to a new Georgetown University poll 67% of Americans think that our country is in such a disarray that another Civ...
Cumulus Media Oct 24, 2019