Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

  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...

CHICAGO (AP) - Volunteers in Chicago have returned from Houston with 43 cats and dogs that their owners in flood-damaged Houston felt they had no choice but to give up for good. The Chicago Sun-Times ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois schools will be required to teach financial literacy skills such as balancing a checkbook and putting money into a savings account this school year. The Springfield J...

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Scott Lawrimore After a couple of warm days, a cold front moves thru bringing a slight change of a shower or thunderstorm, with the threats mainly to th eshouth. Today...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Four men are dead and at least 30 other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago between late Friday and Monday afternoon.   Just before ...

Six Flags Discovery KingdomPhoto by Greg Grudt/Mathew Imaging GURNEE, Ill. (AP) - A theme park north of Chicago says it will open the world’s largest loop roller coaster next year. Six Flags Gre...

CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago-area man is facing terrorism charges after being accused of trying to pay for others to travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants and another group. Thirty-one-year-old ...

ByWeather Channel Meteorologist Geoff Maurer A warming trend continues into tomorrow, Labor Day. .   Today|Sunny. High 83F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight|Clear. Low around 70F. Winds SW at 1...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner is seeking federal help for people in four northern Illinois counties affected by flooding and severe storms this summer. Rauner’s office said Friday h...