Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Untimely T ends Northwestern rally; Gonzaga wins 79-73
Northwestern guard Isiah Brown (12) and Gonzaga center Przemek Karnowski (24) scramble for a loose ball during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA men’s college basketball tourname...
Mar 18, 2017
Chicago police investigate officer who raised money for kids
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Police are investigating a sergeant who was praised for helping three young girls found living in squalid conditions in an abandoned building last year because he helped raise m...
Mar 18, 2017
Rauner takes union fight to Illinois Supreme Court
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner has taken his confrontation with the state’s largest public-employee union to the Supreme Court. The Republican announced Friday that his office has as...
Mar 18, 2017
Willowbrook Woman Sentenced For Fraud
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A Willowbrook woman has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for scheming to help a contractor falsely satisfy its female hiring requirement for cit...
Mar 17, 2017
Congressman Roskam: Trump budget is a “wish list.”
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) West Suburban Republican Congressman Peter Roskam is reacting to criticism of President Trump’s proposed budget. The budget calls for increases in m...
Mar 17, 2017
Anti-Semitic fliers found in UIC campus buildings
(CHICAGO) Dozens of anti-Semitic fliers were found in several buildings on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus Tuesday. The fliers accused Jews of controlling a disproportionate amount of the...
Mar 17, 2017
Chicago man charged with defrauding clients out of $1.5 million
(CHICAGO) A Chicago man has been charged with defrauding clients out of at least $1.5 million by pocketing their money for personal expenses instead of investing it. Randall Rye, 26, who owns Faster T...
Mar 17, 2017
CPS seeking order to stop 1-day teachers strike
(CHICAGO) Chicago Public Schools is seeking a legal order to stop a potential one-day Chicago Teachers Union strike, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Attorneys for CPS filed a motion with the Illin...
Mar 17, 2017
Deaths of 2 found in car in St. Charles under investigation
(ST. CHARLES) Two people died after being found unresponsive inside a parked car Thursday morning in west suburban St. Charles. Officers were called at 8:08 a.m. to a report of a suspicious vehicle in...
Mar 17, 2017
WEATHER – Light rain and drizzle with some wet snowflakes. Cloudy this afternoon with showers and a high of 42°F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM 890 Ray’s Note: AS A WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO DRIFT OVER THE REGION, EXPECT PERIODS OF RAIN AS TEMPERATURES HOVER NEAR THE FREEZING MARK. Some sp...
Mar 17, 2017
