Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
One Time Arena Football Owner Gets 3 1/2 Years for Fraud
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...
May 12, 2017
Former Rush Owner Sentenced to Prison
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...
May 12, 2017
ACME Scrap CEO Pleads Guilty
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...
May 12, 2017
Police: Duo stole woman’s Maserati after West Town fender bender
(CHICAGO) Two people stole a woman's Maserati after rear-ending it on Thursday evening in West Town. About 6:30 p.m., she got out of the luxury car after the minor collision with another vehicle in th...
May 12, 2017
Blue Cross Blue Shield will offer customers free Lyft rides
By Julia Horowitz Blue Cross Blue Shield wants you to make it to your doctor’s appointments — so much that it’s willing to pay for your Lyft. The health care provider announced Wedne...
May 11, 2017
$6M settlement reached with Chicago bus accident victim
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Transit Authority has reached a $6 million settlement with a woman whose feet were run over by one of its buses. CTA general counsel Karen Seimetz on Wednesday told the tran...
May 11, 2017
3 U of Illinois football players arrested in alleged robbery
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Three University of Illinois football players have been arrested for allegedly robbing a man of cash in a residence hall. Police told the Champaign News-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2...
May 11, 2017
Court upholds FOIA decision involving College of DuPage
CHICAGO (AP) - An Illinois appellate court has ruled that the College of DuPage Foundation is subject to the state’s open records law and ordered it to turn over a federal subpoena that the Chic...
May 10, 2017
Father heartbroken by video of bus aide slapping daughter, 6
By Sheena Jones and Susannah Cullinane A video showing a bus aide slapping a 6-year-old girl with autism has left an Illinois father heartbroken. In the surveillance-camera footage, the unidentified a...
May 10, 2017
Durbin Calls for Independent Commission to Investigate Russian Election Meddling
John Dempsey, WLS-AM 890 News Illinois Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin wants to see an independent commission investigate allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election....
May 09, 2017
