Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Todd Borek A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MONDAY. 2 to 5 INCHES OF SNOWFALL POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. LOCALIZED ICE JAM FLOODING ON AREA RIVERS ...

  By Weather Channel Meteorologist Geoff Maurer (CHICAGO) The next round of snow moves in later today and continues into Monday morning. Today|Increasing clouds with a few snow showers late. High...

  CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner’s former communications director is suing the administration over emails on the signing of a controversial plan allowing taxpayer-funded abortions. The Ch...

CHICAGO (AP) - The field of Democrats vying for the chance to replace U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez is narrowing. Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa dropped out of the running Tuesday. That leaves five D...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News   (CHICAGO) Tuesday’s state legislative hearing on the Legionnaires deaths at the Quincy Veterans home produced a recommendation to spend $25-30M to replace the...

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. ...