Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
March May Snarl Downtown Saturday
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) With thousands of marchers expected for the Women's March on Chicago on Saturday, January 21, the Office of Emergency Management and Communications has advised resi...
Jan 20, 2017
Man found dead in River North garage was Highland Park attorney
Louis Cohen | Photo from chambersandpartners.com (CHICAGO) A body found after a rubbish fire Tuesday morning in a River North parking garage has been identified as a 60-year-old Chicago real estate la...
Jan 20, 2017
City employee accused of sending ‘sexually explicit’ emails
(CHICAGO) An employee of the city's Department of Planning and Development was accused Wednesday of using city computers to send "more than 50 sexually explicit emails" over a three-month period and u...
Jan 19, 2017
Gov. Rauner wary of ‘Obamacare’ repeal without replacement
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says President Barack Obama’s health care law has “massive flaws,” but he’s cautious about repeal “with nothing to rep...
Jan 19, 2017
Duckworth Afraid Ethanol Subsidies Could End
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, the Attorney General of Oklahoma, got grilled today at his confirmation hearin...
Jan 18, 2017
Kinzinger rips Obama on Chelsea Manning decision.
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger is blasting President Obama’s decision to commute the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army P...
Jan 18, 2017
Ski Jump Tournament Postponed
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 (CHICAGO) Mother Nature is forcing a ski club in the far northwest suburbs to postpone its annual tournament. The warm temperatures have forced the Norge Ski Club in Fox River...
Jan 18, 2017
WEATHER – Foggy this morning, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 41F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Mild weather for January the next several days. rainy at times, certainly not wintry. SUNRISE AND SUNSET JANUARY 18 2017 &...
Jan 18, 2017
IPRA releases video from fatal November police shooting
Surveillance image of a fatal shooting involving Chicago Police officers in Englewood in November 2016. | Independent Police Review Authority The Independent Police Review Authority on Tuesday release...
Jan 18, 2017
Aurora Boy Gets Temporary Heart
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) An Aurora boy is the the world’s youngest recipient of a smaller version of a temporary artificial heart. While he is waiting for a permanent transplant, 11-y...
Jan 17, 2017
