Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Todd Borek, Weather Channel Meteorologist After a stormy overnight, things should start to clear up and Sunday should be drier but windy. Today|Early fog then partly sunny and gusty. High 64F. Wind...

CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago has settled a lawsuit filed by a man wrongly convicted for the 1994 rape and murder of a woman. The lawsuit filed by Terrill Swift is the first by one of the four te...

Edward Klein | DuPage County Sheriff’s Dept.  (NAPERVILLE) A Wisconsin man who formerly worked for the federal government is facing attempted murder charges for the shooting of an Amtrak co...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Public Schools plans to take out a $389 million short-term loan to get the financially struggling district through the end of the school year and make a pension payment due next...

MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after his 1-year-old stepson died with severe burns from hot bathwater in suburban Chicago. WLS-TV reports that 31-year-old Gregory ...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Expected to be discussed during a conference call, with a federal judge, later today: A request by former Congressman Aaron Schock to have his trial resch...

By Christopher Michael, WLS-AM News (WILLOWBROOK) — A southwest suburban man faces a felony charge for allegedly leaving the scene of a crash late Wednesday that killed one man and injured four ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) With less than two weeks to go in the regular session of the General Assembly, Governor Rauner is willing to “be supportive” of a city-owned Chic...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Senate has adjourned without taking action on remaining items from the “grand bargain” budget compromise. Democrats who run the chamber had said they ...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) — A charter school in Chicago is threatening a strike. If teachers at Passages Charter School were to walk off the job, the school would be the first char...