Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Metra fares to increase in February
(CHICAGO) A Metra fare increase will go into effect at the start of February that will raise the annual cost to ride the train by $141 for those buying a monthly pass. Metra said the fare increases, w...
Jan 20, 2017
City sells $1.16B in bonds, but pays a heavy price for CPS crisis
(CHICAGO) Chicago sold $1.16 billion in general obligation bonds Thursday, but paid a heavy price for a school financial crisis made worse by Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a bill promising $215 million ...
Jan 20, 2017
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
