Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

  PORTER, Ind. (AP) - A push to make the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore the country’s 60th national park has cleared a big step in Congress. The U.S. House approved the bill in a unanimou...

CHICAGO (AP) - It has been two years since aspiring model Kaylyn Pryor of Evanston was shot to death in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, and no arrests have been made for the crime. Her family ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The woman who claims that an Illinois Senate Democratic leader sexually harassed her wants to know why Sen. Ira Silverstein faced no repercussions until after she went public ...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Lawyers for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich are planning to file a petition with the United States Supreme Court on Thursday, asking the high ...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) We still love the SUV and bought a lot of them last month, “Again, we saw small SUVs – the growth continues. They came in about 22% of the ind...

CHICAGO (AP) - Billionaire businessman Ken Griffin is donating $125 million to the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics. The university announced Griffin’s gift Wednesday, sayin...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The emergency manager running the financially strapped Gary Community School Corp. says one of the district’s two high schools likely will close at the end of the current aca...

By Bill Cameron (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel says Chicago is taking a lesson from this latest sidewalk terrorism. “Take a look at New York," Emanuel says, "It’s not different in kind or ty...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A new poll has some bleak news for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. The poll from the market research company Morning Consult finds that Rauner is tied for fifth ...

CHICAGO (AP) - A law passed last year requires every judicial circuit in Illinois to have a veterans treatment court starting Jan. 1. The Chicago Tribune reports the courts allow veterans who were hon...