Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
AG Madigan convenes summit on Trump orders
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has convened legal and civil rights organizations in the wake of what she calls “troubling” executive orders issued by President Donal...
Feb 23, 2017
University of Illinois kicks off 150th birthday celebration
University of Illinois students walk across the Main Quad on campus in Urbana, Ill. (AP Photo/David Mercer, File) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois is kicking off a 15-month celebratio...
Feb 23, 2017
Illinois union to announce strike-authorization vote results
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois’ largest public-employee union is set to announce the result of a strike-authorization vote. The state council of the American Federation of State, County and M...
Feb 23, 2017
Illinois education board vote settles 2008 funding lawsuit
CHICAGO (AP) - The Illinois State Board of Education has voted to approve the settlement of a years-long lawsuit that claimed discriminatory school funding. The board’s Wednesday vote resolves l...
Feb 23, 2017
Plight of company towns: finding a new identity
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Company towns like Peoria, Illinois, have long relied on a major employer to provide generations of locals with jobs and give the cities their central identity. Now many of those m...
Feb 23, 2017
21-year-old man dies in ‘workplace mishap’ in Mokena
(MOKENA) A 21-year-old man died Wednesday morning after a "workplace mishap" in southwest suburban Mokena. Anas L. Ali, of Midlothian, was pronounced dead at 11:40 a.m. in the 18000 block of Wolf Road...
Feb 23, 2017
WEATHER – After a Record-Setting Wednesday, Temperatures Begin to Cool Down. High 48F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Thursday, February 23, 2017 CRAZY RIDE THE NEXT FEW DAY!!!! RECORD HIGH TIED TODAY. STORMS LOOK POSSIBLE FRIDAY AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES…̷...
Feb 23, 2017
20,000 Chicago students to see ‘Hamilton,’ study US history
CHICAGO (AP) - An education program that debuted last year with the megahit musical “Hamilton” on Broadway is coming to the touring company in Chicago. Broadway in Chicago says 1,900 Chica...
Feb 22, 2017
Alabama, John Mellencamp to perform at Illinois State Fair
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The legendary country group Alabama and classic rock star John Mellencamp will be among the performers at this year’s Illinois State Fair. Fair officials announced Tuesd...
Feb 22, 2017
Firm that shaped African-American museum to do Obama museum
CHICAGO (AP) - The Obama Foundation says it has hired the firm that helped shape the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington to lead the exhibition design for the Obama P...
Feb 22, 2017
