Category Archives: Recently On WLS-AM
Alderman Slams Mayor
(CHICAGO) -- Chicago Ald. Raymond Lopez (15) is slamming Mayor Brandon Johnson's appointed Public Health Commissioner's decision to restrict 2025 PlayStreets grants to only traditionally known African...
Apr 25, 2025
The Highland Park shooter sentenced to life in prison
The suburban Chicago man who admitted to fatally shooting seven people and wounding dozens of others during a 2022 Independence Day parade was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibil...
Apr 24, 2025
Funeral services set for Pope Francis
Pope Francis ' funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter's Square, and a viewing of his body will begin on Wednesday in St. Peter's Basilica, days after the popular pontiff died of a s...
Apr 22, 2025
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks in Chicago
The Federal Reserve can stay patient and wait to see how tariffs and other economic policies of the Trump administration play out before making any changes to interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said ...
Apr 16, 2025
Some junk food now banned from the SNAP program in Indiana
Officials in Arkansas and Indiana moved Tuesday to ban soft drinks and candy from the program that helps low-income people pay for groceries, becoming the first states to ask the Trump administration ...
Apr 15, 2025
The White Houses confirms its freezing funding for Northwestern University
The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790 million for Northwestern University while the government investigates alleged civil ri...
Apr 09, 2025
Thousands of government workers may be headed back to work
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal...
Apr 08, 2025
4/17/25 - The Not So Pro Bowler Tour with Ray Stevens and Nick Gale
Get ready for the most (not-so) prestigious bowling event of the season! The Not So Pro Bowler Tour is hitting KINGS Dining & Entertainment inside Rosemont's Parkway Bank Park Entertainment Distri...
Mar 28, 2025
Baseball is back in Chicago
The Chicago White Sox open the season this afternoon against the LA Angels. First pitch is at 3:05pm. Sean Burke will be the starting pitcher for the Sox. Former Chicago Bulls superstar Derrick Rose w...
Mar 27, 2025
The Supreme Court upholds federal regulations on ghost guns
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration regulation on the nearly impossible-to-trace weapons called ghost guns, clearing the way for continued serial numbers, background checks an...
Mar 26, 2025
