Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Developer who conned foreign investors out of $160M gets 3 years
(CHICAGO) Anshoo Sethi just wanted to make his father proud. Instead, his $900 million dream of building a hotel and convention complex near O'Hare Airport left his family in financial ruin. And on Tu...
Feb 22, 2017
Several displaced after fire in Berwyn apartment building
Firefighters battled a blaze Tuesday night at an apartment building in the 2300 block of Euclid Avenue in Berwyn. | Network Video Productions (BERWYN) At least eight people were in need of shelter lat...
Feb 22, 2017
CPS to ICE: Keep Out
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Chicago Public Schools principals have been told, if immigration agents show up and they don’t have a criminal warrant, don’t let them in. As ...
Feb 22, 2017
WEATHER – Foggy early, becoming sunny this afternoon. Record high temperatures expected. High 68F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Record warmth likely Wednesday. Much colder weather set to arrive this weekend…. DENSE FOG ADVISORY THIS MORNING To...
Feb 22, 2017
Peterson Moved Form Downstate Prison to Joliet
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Four years after he was convicted for the murder of his third wife, ex-Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson is changing venues. Peterson had been serving out his time at M...
Feb 21, 2017
Racial controversy at New Trier High School.
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM news (NORTHFIELD) In the northern suburbs, some New Trier HIgh School parents have objected to an upcoming civil-rights seminar. Hundreds of people showed up at Monday night...
Feb 21, 2017
New Trier High employee charged with stealing over $10,000
Jeanine M. Brooks | Cook County sheriff’s office (WINNETKA) A New Trier High employee has been charged with stealing more than $10,000 from the north suburban school. Jeanine M. Brooks, 36, was ...
Feb 21, 2017
Joliet man dies at work, trapped between machinery
(ROCKDALE) A southwest suburban man died Thursday afternoon in a workplace mishap in Rockdale. Robert L. Dykes, 55, was pronounced dead at 12:17 p.m. at his job in the 100 block of Connell Avenue in R...
Feb 21, 2017
UPDATE: Monday breaks record-high temperatures for fourth day in a row
(CHICAGO) Chicago's streak of unseasonably warm weather broke record-high temperatures for the fourth consecutive day Monday. As of 3:59 p.m. Monday, the temperature had reached 70 degrees at O'Hare I...
Feb 20, 2017
Several hundred protest Trump in Chicago
By Julie Walker, Associated Press (CHICAGO) Thousands of demonstrators across the U.S. have turned out to challenge Donald Trump in a Presidents’ Day protest dubbed Not My President’s Day....
Feb 20, 2017
