Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - Courts across Illinois have had about a month to adjust to the requirements of the new bail reform law that took effect Jan. 1. Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the Bail Reform Act in the ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport will receive a $640,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to buy zero emissions ground support equipment. City of...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Former Chicago top cop Garry McCarthy is sounding more and more like he is going to run for Mayor next year against Rahm Emanuel, the man who fired McCarthy in 2...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Attorneys for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine indicate they will ask a judge to dismiss part of a lawsuit alleging wage discrimination because few female docto...

(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...