Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Anti-Semitic fliers found in UIC campus buildings
(CHICAGO) Dozens of anti-Semitic fliers were found in several buildings on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus Tuesday. The fliers accused Jews of controlling a disproportionate amount of the...
Mar 17, 2017
Chicago man charged with defrauding clients out of $1.5 million
(CHICAGO) A Chicago man has been charged with defrauding clients out of at least $1.5 million by pocketing their money for personal expenses instead of investing it. Randall Rye, 26, who owns Faster T...
Mar 17, 2017
CPS seeking order to stop 1-day teachers strike
(CHICAGO) Chicago Public Schools is seeking a legal order to stop a potential one-day Chicago Teachers Union strike, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Attorneys for CPS filed a motion with the Illin...
Mar 17, 2017
Deaths of 2 found in car in St. Charles under investigation
(ST. CHARLES) Two people died after being found unresponsive inside a parked car Thursday morning in west suburban St. Charles. Officers were called at 8:08 a.m. to a report of a suspicious vehicle in...
Mar 17, 2017
WEATHER – Light rain and drizzle with some wet snowflakes. Cloudy this afternoon with showers and a high of 42°F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM 890 Ray’s Note: AS A WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO DRIFT OVER THE REGION, EXPECT PERIODS OF RAIN AS TEMPERATURES HOVER NEAR THE FREEZING MARK. Some sp...
Mar 17, 2017
Chicago police leader meets with attorney general on crime
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions for more federal prosecutors in the city devoted to prosecuting gun possession crimes, more federal ...
Mar 16, 2017
Woman accused of forging petitions for DuPage college board seat
(WHEATON) A former candidate was charged Wednesday with submitting forged documents in an effort to obtain a seat on the College of DuPage Board of Trustees. Rafath Waheed, of west suburban Lisle, mad...
Mar 16, 2017
Wabash and Washington to close, CTA trains rerouted this weekend
(CHICAGO) A busy Loop intersection will be closed and several CTA lines will be rerouted this weekend for construction of a new elevated CTA station. The intersection of Wabash and Washington will clo...
Mar 16, 2017
IL Dems Oppose Trump Budget
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) There is local reaction to President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget which contains much more for defense and much less for arts and sciences and po...
Mar 16, 2017
Rahm Emanuel set to break ground on new CTA rail car factory
(CHICAGO) The city will break ground Thursday afternoon on a $100 million factory that will churn out new rail cars for the CTA on the Southeast Side. The new manufacturing plant at 13535 S. Torrence ...
Mar 16, 2017
