Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Vendors at the Indiana State Fair have been asked to stop selling goods with Confederate symbols. The Indianapolis Star says the fair received complaints about Confederate f...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois is marking the 20th anniversary of legislation that lowered the drunken driving limit to .08 blood-alcohol concentration. State officials said Friday that since the l...

CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois officials say residents should beware of fraudsters seeking to profit from the buzz surrounding Monday’s solar eclipse. The warning concerns the selling of eclipse glasse...

By Weather Channel Meteorologist Ray Stagich After possible overnight storms, it should clear up to be beautiful start to the weekend. Today|Partly cloudy skies. A stray shower or thunderstorm is poss...

CHICAGO (AP) - Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is throwing his support behind a Chicago-area sweetened beverage tax by financing an ad campaign backing the levy. Bloomberg’s charity anno...

CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner says a plan that would limit cooperation between authorities in Illinois and federal immigration authorities “seems very reasonable.” The Republican said F...

CHICAGO (AP) - Cook County officials say a problem with the newly imposed sweetened beverage tax that jeopardized about $87 million in federal food stamp funds for Illinois has been solved. Retailers ...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Ford Motor Co. has agreed to pay up to $10.1 million to settle sexual and racial harassment allegations by workers at two Chicago-area plants. The settlement announced this week...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago’s recent U.S. attorney who oversaw the prosecution of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has joined the current FBI director’s old law firm. Atlanta-based King &...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Metra Board of Directors has named a longtime mechanical department employee to serve as the next executive director/CEO of the suburban Chicago commuter rail agency. The board unan...