Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Driver charged with fatal pedestrian hit-and-run in Des Plaines
Henry Houston | Des Plaines police (DES PLAINES) Bond was set at $50,000 Thursday for a man charged with striking two men with his van, killing one, then driving away Tuesday morning in northwest subu...
Feb 17, 2017
Man shot to death in Avondale
A man was shot to death Thursday morning in the 4000 block of West Melrose. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times (CHICAGO) A man was shot to death Thursday morning in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Si...
Feb 16, 2017
Federal judge rules against effort for elected school board
(CHICAGO) A federal judge has rejected an effort by former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and some Chicago residents to force the city to adopt an elected school board. Quinn and the residents filed a lawsui...
Feb 16, 2017
Trump nominee has decried Medicaid for fostering dependency
(CHICAGO) The businesswoman President Donald Trump selected to oversee Medicaid has said the program is structurally flawed by policies that burden states and foster dependency. Seema Verma heads Indi...
Feb 16, 2017
Four days after shooting, 12-year-old Kanari Gentry-Bowers dies
(CHICAGO) Kanari Gentry-Bowers, the 12-year-old struck by a stray bullet as she played at her school playground on Saturday night, died Wednesday after four days on life support at Stroger Hospital, t...
Feb 16, 2017
Police investigating report of shots fired on Dan Ryan
(CHICAGO) All outbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway were closed to traffic for more than an hour early Thursday while state police investigated a report of shots fired. Police were called shortly ...
Feb 16, 2017
Chicago Girl, 12, Dies Days After Being Shot
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) The second of two girls shot less than an hour apart last Saturday night has died. Twelve-year old Kanari Gentry-Bowers died Wednesday. She had been shot ...
Feb 15, 2017
Rauner Plan Calls For Additional Troopers
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) As expected, Gov. Bruce Rauner in his state budget address, vowed to send more Illinois State Police to Chicago to help quell the street violence. Rauner says there...
Feb 15, 2017
Oak Park man indicted on child sex trafficking charges
(CHICAGO) A west suburban man has been indicted on federal charges for the alleged sex trafficking of five teenagers. A grand jury returned the indictment Feb. 9 against 52-year-old Allen Young of Oak...
Feb 15, 2017
Rauner Delivers Budget Address Today
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 (CHICAGO) Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner makes his budget address today and it looks like he will follow the same notes as in years past. He will address growing the economy, the ...
Feb 15, 2017
