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ABC7 Chicago
U.S. center to center-left
ABC7 Chicago (WLS-TV, channel 7) is owned by Disney through its ABC Owned Television Stations group and funded by advertising. It is a mainstream local TV news outlet that generally covers politics with limited editorial slant, though its parent network ABC leans slightly center-left. In 2026, the station publicly opposed the Trump administration's FCC-driven accelerated license review, urging viewers to file comments against what it called unconstitutional government pressure.
Owned byABC Owned Television Stations, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
LeaningU.S. center to center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun