Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
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
Alderman Grandson Arrest On Murder Charges
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) is expected to issue a statement Tuesday regarding the arrest of her grandson on murder charges. Kenneth Austin was arrested Feb. ...
Feb 20, 2017
Monday breaks record-high temperatures for fourth day in a row
(CHICAGO) Chicago's streak of unseasonable warm weather broke record-high temperatures for the fourth consecutive day Monday. As of 12:10 p.m. Monday, the temperature had reached 66 degrees at O'Hare ...
Feb 20, 2017
Motorcyclist killed in I-80 crash in New Lenox
(NEW LENOX) A motorcyclist was killed in a crash Sunday evening on an I-80 ramp in southwest suburban New Lenox. About 5:40 p.m., Reuben W. Richardson, 55, was driving the motorcycle on the I-80 westb...
Feb 20, 2017
Warm Sunday weather sets record high for third day in a row
(CHICAGO) Chicago's streak of unseasonably warm weather broke record-high temperatures for the third consecutive day on Sunday. Temperatures reached a high of 69 degrees at 1:56 p.m. at O'Hare Interna...
Feb 20, 2017
WEATHER – Mainly cloudy. Record high temperatures expected. High 64F.
Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Monday, February 20th, 2017 AFTER SHATTERING RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS WEEKEND, THE SPRINGLIKE WARMTH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDWEEK. A STRONG LAKE BREEZE WILL KEEP...
Feb 20, 2017
CPD officer saved during stroke by 7-year-old son’s 911 call
(CHICAGO) A Chicago Police officer in the middle of her morning routine last month suffered a stroke, but her 7-year-old son realized something was wrong and called for help, saving his mother's life....
Feb 20, 2017
ICE arrests man who escaped Illinois prison in 2003
CHICAGO (AP) - A man who escaped from an Illinois prison in 2003 has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Atlanta. An ICE spokesman says Jorge Soberanis-Rumaldo was take...
Feb 19, 2017
