Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Man Sentenced to 18 Months for Pocketing Bribes
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A Lynwood man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for pocketing bribes in exchange for allowing food service workers to bypass sanitation certificatio...
Apr 20, 2017
Chicago aldermen want police to discuss anti-texting tools
CHICAGO (AP) - Two Chicago aldermen want the city’s police to look into using technology that would detect if motorists involved in injury accidents were texting while driving. Chicago City Coun...
Apr 20, 2017
Arrest made in Schaumburg murder
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Schaumburg police have made an arrest in the murder of a 26-year old woman whose body was found in her apartment this past Sunday. Police have charged 29-year ol...
Apr 20, 2017
2 held after word of planned shooting at Chicago-area school
SKOKIE, Ill. (AP) - Police say two students were taken into custody for allegedly making plans for a shooting at their suburban Chicago middle school. Police in Skokie say in a statement they responde...
Apr 20, 2017
Suspect in custody in case of strangled Schaumburg woman
(SCHAUMBURG) A person is in custody in connection with the strangulation of a 33-year-old woman whose body was found on Sunday in a northwest suburban Schaumburg apartment. Officers went to the apartm...
Apr 20, 2017
Bond Denied for Man Charged With Murder Near CTA Station
Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Bond has been denied for a Chicago man accused of shooting to death another man outside a CTA Red Line stop on the city’s South Side earlier this week....
Apr 20, 2017
WEATHER – Isolated thunderstorms this morning. Partly to mostly cloudy & windy this afternoon. High 73F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Geoff Maurer WLS Morning Thursday, April 20th, 2017 Temperatures will run above average today but a cooling trend will take place from Friday into the start of the weeke...
Apr 20, 2017
Judge Decides CPS Funding Lawsuit Next Week
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A Cook County judge will decide next week whether a Chicago Public Schools lawsuit alleging discriminatory funding by the state will move forward. If the judge deci...
Apr 19, 2017
Caterpillar to Deerfield
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 (CHICAGO) Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar is packing up it’s headquarters, driving right past Chicago, and north to an office park in Deerfield. Caterpillar̵...
Apr 19, 2017
Prosecutors defend use of Schock informant
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Federal prosecutors deny that investigators crossed legal lines in their use of a confidential informant from former Republican Rep. Aaron Schock’s staff to build a co...
Apr 19, 2017
