Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

CHICAGO (AP) - A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against a Chicago-area police officer seen on video threatening to kill a black teenager in June for trespassing. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Chi...

CHICAGO (AP) - Heavy thunderstorms forced day one of Lollapalooza to end early with headliners Lorde and Muse still on stage. Concertgoers evacuated Chicago’s Grant Park as the severe weather ro...

By Paul LeBlanc and Madison Park An associate professor at Northwestern University and an employee of England’s University of Oxford are wanted in the killing of a 30-year-old man found inside t...

By Darlene, Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The government wants to make it easier for veterans to get medical care and is promoting new ways to use technology to help. President Donald...

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. ...