Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(CHICAGO) The Cook County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of a scammer posing as an IRS agent over the phone. The automated phone call warns of an arrest warrant that can be resolved by calling ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) - University of Illinois researchers are using a $4 million grant to study how information moves across social media, affecting people’s beliefs and shaping events. Computer Sc...

CHICAGO (AP) - One of Chicago’s most powerful labor leaders before he was indicted on federal charges of extorting $325,000 from a film studio in the city has been banished from the Teamsters Un...

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Jeff Eno NEXT ROUND OF LOW PRESSURE AND ACCUMULATING SNOW ON THE WAY TONIGHT….WE’VE SEEN 8 STRAIGHT DAYS OF ACCUMULATING SNOW Rest of Today|Generally cloud...

PALATINE, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago-area transgender student has appealed a judge’s ruling denying her request for an injunction that would have granted her unrestricted access to the girls’ l...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — AptarGroup and Adapt Pharma has donated 4,000 doses of NARCAN nasal spray to the Illinois Department of Public Health, with another 1,000 doses schedule...

CHICAGO (AP) - A winter storm expected to move across the Midwest is forecast to bring between 6 and 10 inches of snow to northern Illinois, with more than a foot (1/3 meter) of snow in some areas. WA...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A bill has been proposed at the Illinois General Assembly that would put term limits on four legislative positions. The legislation would limit the House speaker and the Senat...

CHICAGO (AP) - An Illinois jury’s medical malpractice award has been slashed by $15 million because the injured woman died the day before the 2015 trial verdict. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin r...

CHICAGO (AP) - Fresh off the launch of his SpaceX heavy rocket Elon Musk is expressing a down-to-earth interest, an express train from O’Hare International Airport to downtown Chicago. Musk̵...