Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Police Looking For Impaired Drivers This Weekend
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The Illinois Department of Transportation is reminding those looking to take part in the St. Patricks Day festivities in Chicago this weekend to designate a driver,...
Mar 11, 2017
Revision shows Illinois job gains, not losses, in December
CHICAGO (AP) - Revised employment figures for Illinois show that the state didn’t lose thousands of jobs in December after all. The Illinois Department of Employment Security had announced in Ja...
Mar 11, 2017
WEATHER: Winter returns this weekend
By Scott Lawrimore, Weather Channel Meteorologist (CHICAGO) Winter returns to Chicago this weekend, and even some accumulating snow early next week. Today|Sunshine and clouds mixed. High near 30F. Win...
Mar 11, 2017
Vaccination Clinic In Response To Mumps Outbreak
Graphical representation of mumps virus | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (BARRINGTON) In response to the mumps outbreak at Barrington High School, the Health Depa...
Mar 10, 2017
1 killed, 2 injured in downtown crash near Grant Park
Firefighters work to extricate victims from a car that crashed early Friday at Balbo and Lake Shore Drive. | Network Video Productions One person was killed and two were seriously injured when a car s...
Mar 10, 2017
Illinois Senate Democrats decry lack of help on budget cuts
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Senate Democrats are critiquing the budget-cutting prowess of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s cabinet. Committee chairmen decried Thursday the performance of agency heads w...
Mar 10, 2017
Chicago receives $5M to provide vaccines to low-income kids
CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago is receiving more than $5 million in federal funding to provide vaccines to children from low-income families. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth announced T...
Mar 10, 2017
Chicago police chief advocates for stricter gun sentencing
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Chicago’s top law enforcement officer says an Illinois Senate proposal to increase prison sentences for repeat gun offenders would help stanch the city’s rampant g...
Mar 10, 2017
The Latest: Health fund mistakenly designated for salary
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration had arranged to pay a new deputy governor out of an employee health care account that is more than $4 billion behind on its b...
Mar 10, 2017
Dozens Arrested for Selling Fentanyl-Laced Heroin
Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Dozens of gang members on Chicago’s West Side are now facing charges of selling fentanyl-laced heroin. The Eisenhower Expressway has become known, by s...
Mar 10, 2017
