Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

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...

By Scott Lawrimore, Weather Channel Meteorologist (CHICAGO) MUCH COOLER weather coming today…no more 80s for a while…. Today | Cloudy with occasional showers for the afternoon. High 52F. (...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A University of Notre Dame student says he and some others plan to protest Vice President Mike Pence’s Sunday commencement address at the school by walking out on the spe...

By Christopher Michael, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Some important changes are coming to the Chicago Police Department. The CPD is going to implement a new use of force policy. Police Superintendent Edd...