Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
City Hall Targets Bad Businesses
By Bill Cameron (CHICAGO) Too many bad actors are thumbing their noses at city regulations. For example, in city budget hearings the Business Affairs Commissioner reported two-thirds of valet parkers ...
Oct 18, 2016
NLCS: Game three tonight in LA
LOS ANGELES CA (AP) The National League Championship Series resumes tonight in Los Angeles after the Dodgers and Cubs split the first two games in Chicago. Reigning National league Cy Young Award winn...
Oct 18, 2016
SUPES Guilty Plea Clears Way For Byrd-Bennett Sentencing
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) One of the co-owners of SUPES Academy pleaded guilty today in connection with bribing former head of Chicago Public Schools Barbara Byrd-Bennett. Gary Solomon initi...
Oct 18, 2016
The Chicago Bulls Welcome Michael Carter-Williams in an Exchange with the Milwaukee Bucks
Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Just hours before Monday’s game against Charlotte, the Chicago Bulls announced that the team acquired guard Michael Carter-Williams from the Milwaukee Buck...
Oct 18, 2016
Movie Sets in Chicago to see Higher Taxes
Chicago’s movie shoots are glamorous, but Bill Cameron says one alderman thinks they also ought to pay some street tax. Everybody says Chicago looks great on TV and in the movies, but Near North...
Oct 18, 2016
WEATHER – Partly cloudy. High 72F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich Tuesday, Oct. 18 WINDY AND WARM…TEMPS WON’T GET MUCH HIGHER ON TUESDAY BUT WILL REMAIN ABOVE AVERAGE INTO WEDNESDAY BEFORE COOLING DOWN THURSDAY ...
Oct 18, 2016
Chicago Man Gets Over Two Decades in prison for Uptown Rape
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) A beating and rape outside of an apartment building on Chicago’s North Side has landed a Chicago man in prison for 24 years. In December 2012 a woma...
Oct 18, 2016
Windsurfer rescued from Lake Michigan
U.S. Coast Guard rescued man from Lake Michigan Monday. | Network Video Productions (EVANSTON) A windsurfer was rescued from Lake Michigan Monday in north suburban Evanston, according to Evanst...
Oct 18, 2016
Suit: Motorcyclist hit, killed by FedEx truck in Hickory Hills
Wayne Loebbaka | Provided photo (HICKORY HILLS) The family of a 27-year-old motorcyclist has filed a lawsuit against FedEx and the truck driver they say fatally struck the man while he was ridi...
Oct 18, 2016
Detainee’s death an example of ‘unjust’ bond system
Ryan Hanley | Chicago Police (CHICAGO) A Far South Side man who had been held at the Cook County Jail for four months since being arrested for theft at an Avondale neighborhood Jewel-Osco died in cust...
Oct 18, 2016
