Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago has asked a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s policy of withholding public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities. The request was filed late Thursday ...

  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - A western Indiana school district is taking steps to protect curious students from damaging their eyesight during this month’s total solar eclipse. The eclipse th...

(CHICAGO) A captain in the Chicago Police Calumet District died early Sunday after he was found unconscious in his squad car on the Bishop Ford Freeway on the Far South Side, police said. Captain Jame...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago officials say all students and accompanying adults will again get free Chicago Transit Authority bus and train rides for the first day school this upcoming school year. School s...

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Jeff Eno MORE SUN THAN CLOUDS THRU AT LEAST MONDAY… CHANCES FOR RAIN RETURN MIDWEEK Today | Mostly sunny. High around 80 Tomoroow | More sun than clouds. High cl...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Two business partners are looking to bring the Midwest Express airline back to Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Curt Drumm, an aviation consultant from Manitowoc...

ROUND LAKE, Ill. (AP) - Residents in this northern Chicago suburb are donating books to the local school district after it lost two libraries in a summer flood. The Round Lake Area School District say...

CHICAGO (AP) - A former Chicago police officer has been convicted of obstructing a federal grand jury investigation into drug dealing on the city’s West Side. Ronald T. Coleman was a member of t...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — A former member of the Illinois House doesn’t believe Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a education funding bill can be overridden by lawmakers in...

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Mark Thibodeau COLD FRONT MOVING THRU MEANS A BEAUTIFUL FRIDAY AND A BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND AHEAD…… Today | Partly cloudy. High 76F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph. T...