Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Ex-bank official charged with stealing from customers
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A former suburban Chicago banker has been charged with stealing more than $325,000 from three elderly bank customers. Christine Lange was employed as an account executive at Trust...
Aug 02, 2017
Officials: Chicago’s projected deficit smallest in 10 years
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago officials say the city’s budget in 2018 will have a $114.2 million shortfall, the smallest in 10 years. However, aides to Mayor Rahm Emanuel concede the projected budget d...
Aug 02, 2017
Tow operator pleads guilty in case involving Indiana sheriff
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - A tow truck operator charged in an alleged bribery scheme has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for federal prosecutors against an indicted northwestern Indiana sheriff. Sixty-...
Aug 02, 2017
WEATHER: Scattered showers or thunderstorms later today
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Scott Lawrimore More scattered storms expected today and tomorrow Today | Intervals of clouds and sunshine in the morning with more clouds for later in the day. A stra...
Aug 02, 2017
July violence pushes Chicago’s 2017 homicide total past 400
CHICAGO (AP) - July was another dangerous month in Chicago, with 74 homicides reported. Police say that drove the total for the year past the 400 mark and put the city on pace to eclipse last yearR...
Aug 01, 2017
New bacteria tests for Chicago beaches give faster results
CHICAGO (AP) - University of Illinois at Chicago researchers and park district officials say they’ve come up with a way to keep swimmers out of Chicago’s lakefront when there is too much b...
Aug 01, 2017
Chicago officials take 17 party bus companies off the road
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago officials are taking 17 party bus companies off the road after months of complaints about public drunkenness, shooting incidents and even gang activity. On Monday, city official...
Aug 01, 2017
Man pleads guilty to tossing dogs from top of parking garage
OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago is beginning a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to throwing two small dogs from the roof of a five-story hospital parking garage. The (Tinley Par...
Aug 01, 2017
Chicago Alderman wants to punish parents for kids gun crimes.
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A Southwest side alderman wants to punish parents when their children commit gun crimes. 15th ward Alderman Raymond Lopez told “The Big John and Ramblin...
Jul 31, 2017
Chicago River site’s sale to help pay for police, fire training campus
(CHICAGO) The $95 million public safety training campus in West Garfield Park that will replace Chicago's police and fire training academies will be bankrolled in part by proceeds from the sale of a v...
Jul 31, 2017
