Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is now asking for $17M in damages from the retailers. She wants the $17M to cover lost pennies-per-ounce while the r...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Although Mayor Rahm Emanuel has re-appointed his critic, Lori Lightfoot, to be Police Board president, she says she’s very happy for the re-appointment. Sh...

Shane R. Lewis | Kane County state’s attorney’s office(AURORA) A Pennsylvania man has been convicted of traveling to west suburban Aurora to pay to have sex with teenage girls. Shane R. Le...

(CHICAGO) Thunderstorms expected to move into the region Thursday afternoon and evening could soak the crowds on the first day of Lollapalooza in Grant Park. The National Weather Service issued a haza...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he’s re-appointing his critic and former police reform task force co-chair, Lori Lightfoot, as Police Board President. Not re-appoi...

By John Dempsey (CHICAGO) A longtime mainstay of the Wrigleyville neighborhood is going to be closing. Crain’s Chicago Business broke the story that the Taco Bell near Wrigley Field, at 1111 W. ...

ELGIN, Ill. (AP) - The nation’s opioid epidemic has prompted a northern Illinois hospital to start enforcing strict rules on what kind of opioid painkillers can and can’t be dispensed in t...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - An upcoming air show in northern Illinois will feature a missing-man formation in honor of a pilot who died while flying a World War II-era plane in Kansas last month. The Chicag...

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Ray Stagich   (CHICAGO) Somewhat unsettled today. A few storms possible at times. Staying seasonably warm and humid…..UNTIL FRIDAY….BIG COOL DOWN FRID...

(CHICAGO) Arrest warrants have been issued for a Northwestern University professor and a University of Oxford employee for the murder of a 26-year-old man last week in a River North apartment. Judge S...