Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
CPD releases January crime stats
CHICAGO The Chicago Police Department early Wednesday released its monthly crime statistics for January 2017. Police recorded 51 murders across the city last month, one more than January 2016, the dep...
Feb 01, 2017
2 federal lawsuits filed in Chicago over Trump travel ban
CHICAGO (AP) - Two federal lawsuits in Chicago are challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily blocking citizens from seven predominantly-Muslim countries. Both lawsuits fil...
Jan 31, 2017
Rahm Unsure If Cat Will Locate In City Or Burbs
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The mayor of Peoria says the city is going to hold Caterpillar officials to their word that the company will remain a presence as a civic and philanthropic leade...
Jan 31, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court Announcement Tonight
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Tonight, President Trump announces his Supreme Court appointment and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is trying to be polite about it. Senate Republicans refu...
Jan 31, 2017
Man surrenders to SWAT officers after 8-hour Wauconda barricade
(WAUCONDA) A person turned himself into SWAT officers early Tuesday after pouring gasoline throughout his northwest suburban Wauconda home and barricading himself inside for more than eight hours. Off...
Jan 31, 2017
WEATHER – Windy with snow showers and rain showers in the morning. Temps in the Upper 30s
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Tuesday, January 31, 2017 A gusty set up the next few days. Several pockets of weak low pressure (Alberta Clipper systems) will give us some squally c...
Jan 31, 2017
Groups begin bailing out strangers to free poor from jail
By Sara Burnett, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Activists who say too many poor people are unfairly languishing in U.S. jails are increasingly deploying a new tactic: Bailing out strangers. Community...
Jan 30, 2017
Dem Straw Poll: Biss Leads In 2018
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The Illinois Democratic County Chairmen's Association on Monday announced the results of their online straw poll asking who should run for governor and Lt. governor...
Jan 30, 2017
Illinois ACLU denounces Trump travel ban from Muslim nations
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The Illinois Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is blasting President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven ...
Jan 30, 2017
Chicago shoppers will soon pay tax for paper, plastic bags
CHICAGO (AP) - Shoppers in Chicago will soon have to pay a checkout tax of 7 cents per bag at all retailers in the city unless they bring their own bags to stores. The tax starts Wednesday. The Chicag...
Jan 29, 2017
