Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) –– The man who pleaded guilty to killing 16-year-old Blair Holt on a CTA bus 10 years ago, was resentenced Tuesday. During the first part of his sen...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — The Chicago Bears have named Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy as their new head coach. Bears fans breathed a little easier after Coach...

CHICAGO (AP) - A purported suburban Chicago mobster has been released from jail where he’d been awaiting trial on gun charges because he’s terminally ill with prostate cancer. The Chicago ...

CHICAGO (AP) - State records show that the flu season in Illinois appears to be peaking early this year. The Chicago Tribune reports that there are more than 100 more influenza outbreaks across the st...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Naperville police have charged an Aurora high school teacher with public indecency/lewd exposure, after the teacher allegedly exposed himself to a teenage girl. ...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) A disciplinary body in Chicago is recommending that an officer who killed two people be fired. In December 2015, Chicago Police Officer Robert Rialmo resp...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - The Human Service Center of Peoria has started distributing free opioid overdose kits to the public in an effort funded by a federal grant. The (Peoria) Journal Star reports that 1...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois state climatologist says 2017 was the sixth warmest year on record in the state with an average temperature of 54.3 degrees, or 2 degrees above normal. Illinois Sta...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) General Motors, Toyota and Ford report a 1% decline in 2017 sales compared to the previous year. Fiat Chrysler’s sales fell 8%. Honda was flat and V...

CHICAGO (AP) - An inspector general has found several Chicago Public Schools employees “stole or misappropriated” thousands of dollars in gift cards set aside as incentives for students an...