Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Mark Thibodeau Today|Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 69F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight|Mostly cloudy skies. Low 53F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Tomorrow|Morning cl...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — Attorney General Lisa Madigan has joined with 15 attorneys general to file a lawsuit to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grantees. ...

CHICAGO (AP) - A 2006 donation from Illinois gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker to ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s re-election is raising questions. The Chicago Tribune reports Pritzker and his wif...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Dozens of dogs and cats left homeless by Hurricane Harvey arrived in Waukegan Monday to receive medical care and await adoption. GreaterGood.org financed the flight from a Texas ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Rahm Emanuel says Chicago students “have nothing to worry about” as President Donald Trump’s administration said it will wind down a program protecting young imm...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois public health experts say they’re seeing fewer human cases of the West Nile virus this summer but still ask residents to protect themselves against mosquito bit...

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Scott Lawrimore BREEZY, COOL WEATHER CONTINUES THRU TOMORROW….. Today | Partly cloudy skies in the morning will give way to cloudy skies during the afternoon. Sl...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Illinois Senator Dick Durbin thinks the solution to the controversy is for Congress to pass the Dream Act that he and Republican Sen Lindsay Graham have sponsore...

  NEW YORK (AP) - The owner of two of the country’s largest newspapers has purchased the Daily News, a New York tabloid that is famous for generations of hard-punching reporting and irrever...

CHICAGO (AP) - Democratic-leaning Illinois is the latest state to direct taxpayer money to private schools. Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Democratic-controlled Legislature last week approved a sweeping ov...