Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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...