Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A peanut butter substitute sold by an Illinois company is being recalled because 12 cases of E. coli have been linked to the product. Glenview-based I.M. Health SoyNut Butter ...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has announced the awarding of more than $98,000 in donated funds from the Illinois Biodiversity Field Trip Grant Progra...

By Scott Lawrimore, Weather Channel Meteorologist (CHICAGO) After experiencing – for a change – some below average numbers – after a few flurries this morning – maybe up to an ...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chance the Rapper met with Governor Bruce Rauner today, but while Rauner thought it was productive, it sounds like Chance did not. The two met at the governor’...

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) - A coalition of community and environmental groups and law clinics has petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act immediately to protect East Chicago residents...

CHICAGO (AP) - Three major thefts of guns from trains at a South Side Chicago rail yard have happened in a part of the city that’s been plagued by the kind of deadly violence that led to 762 hom...

(OTTAWA) At least seven tornadoes roared through northern and central Illinois Tuesday afternoon, leaving three people dead. An uprooted tree struck 76-year-old Wayne Tuntland, Tuntland's son Toby Joh...

(CHICAGO) A few dozen inmates who remain locked up in Cook County Jail because they're too poor to post their relatively low bonds may be out soon under a new program State's Attorney Kim Foxx announc...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist ray Stagich WLS-AM Thursday, March 2, 2017 Some SNOW in the forecast for Thursday as a clipper comes through…maybe an inch in spots…but that seems a little a...

(CHICAGO) More than 200 snow trucks were deployed across Chicago early Thursday as forecasters predicted snow showers throughout the morning. Snow began to fall across Chicago about 4 a.m. with minor ...