Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Kenneth Boone, Weather Channel Meteorologist (CHICAGO) After a dry weekend, expect the work week to heat up – with warmer temperatures and a chance for thunderstorms.   Today|Partly clou...

NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - Incoming Illinois State University students this fall won’t pay more to attend the school than last year’s freshman class. ISU trustees on Friday voted to hold tuition,...

Tywon M. Salters | Kane County sheriff’s office (GENEVA) A standoff at Delnor Hospital in west suburban Geneva has ended after an inmate who took took a hospital employee hostage was shot by a S...

By Ralph Ellis and Chuck Johnston [Breaking news update, posted at 606pm CT) A SWAT team killed a jail inmate who’d taken a hospital employee hostage Saturday in a Chicago suburb, the Kane Count...

(GENEVA) A Kane County Jail inmate who was being treated at Delnor Hospital in west suburban Geneva took a hospital employee hostage with a correctional officer's gun Saturday afternoon. The incident ...

(CHICAGO) The girlfriend of Chicago Bears' receiver Kevin White was the victim of a carjacking Thursday evening in the West Town neighborhood. Chicago Police said two people stole the Maserati after r...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone was on WLS Friday morning, talking about the President’s firing of FBI director James Comey, and the i...

By Christopher Michael, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — 37 year old David Staral bought the Chicago Rush Arena Football team in 2013. At the time, he said he was going to rebuild the team that was f...

By Nick Gale, WLS-Am 890 News (CHICAGO) — The former owner of the Chicago Rush football franchise has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for concealing debts in his person...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (Chicago) — ACME Refining Co. and its president, Laurence Baron, each pleaded guilty to impairing and impeding the IRS. Acme and Baron admitted in plea agreements t...