Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Atheist activist, Green candidate Rob Sherman dies in plane crash
Robert Sherman was killed when a single-engine plane crashed overnight in Marengo. | Network Video Productions (MARENGO) Rob Sherman, who died over the weekend in a crash of his small plane in ...
Dec 13, 2016
Snow plows head back to streets ahead of overnight snowfall
(CHICAGO) More than 200 snow plows will be deployed Monday night across Chicago as forecasters predict up to another inch of snow by Tuesday morning, following the 7 inches that piled up in this past ...
Dec 13, 2016
Cop who fatally shot Kajuan Raye was under investigation in 2004
(CHICAGO) Chicago Police Officer John Poulos was cleared of the fatal shooting of an unarmed burglary suspect in 2013, and he is under investigation in the fatal shooting last month of an unarmed teen...
Dec 13, 2016
Texting schemer to plead guilty to role in Heather Mack case
(CHICAGO) Robert Bibbs knew the text messages would be his undoing from the start. When the news broke in 2014 that authorities had arrested Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer for the murder of Chicago s...
Dec 13, 2016
Former pharmacy execs allegedly paid bribes to Illinois doctor
(CHICAGO) At first, the Chicago pharmacy sales rep had serious doubts about her ability to persuade a particular doctor in her region to start prescribing her company's powerful painkiller. "He is ext...
Dec 13, 2016
Schock Pleads Not Guilty
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Former U.S. Congressman Aaron Schock is scheduled to go on trial, early in the new year, after pleading not guilty to misusing government and campaign mon...
Dec 12, 2016
Plans moving forward for massive real estate project on Near North side
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) There is another step forward for a huge real estate development where a huge factory once stood on the Near North Side of Chicago. Crain’s Chicago busines...
Dec 12, 2016
Two deaths in Cook County linked to never-before-seen opioids
(CHICAGO) A Chicago man and a northwest suburban resident died of overdoses of powerful opioids that had never before been seen in Cook County, officials said Friday. They were the first deaths...
Dec 11, 2016
UPDATE: No bond for man charged with robbing 94-year-old woman
Olajuwon Claiborne | Chicago policeUPDATES WITH NO BOND A 26-year-old man was charged early Sunday in the home invasion of a 94-year-old U.S. Navy veteran Wednesday morning in her Garfield Ridge neigh...
Dec 11, 2016
Democrat to try solving Chicago gun violence with sentencing
By Ivan Moreno, Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois legislators are facing increasing pressure from law enforcement to crack down on repeat gun offenders who are blamed for the surge in...
Dec 11, 2016
