Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Weather: Clear skies, cooler temperatures
By Weather Channel Meteorologist Ray Stagich (CHICAGO) Mostly clear skies and cooler temperatures should make it superb autumn weekend. Today|Sunny skies. High 64F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight|...
Oct 08, 2016
Baez HR lifts Cubs to 1-0 win in game one of NLDS
CHICAGO –– Javier Baez provided the offensive spark on Friday night to lift the Cubs to a 1-0 lead in the NLDS with the Giants.. Baez launched a full-count fastball from Johnny Cueto into ...
Oct 07, 2016
CPD Ready For Cubs Playoffs
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The City of Chicago has announced their preparations for the Cubs playoffs. Police say there are no credible threats to the Cubs or the city, but they say everyone ...
Oct 06, 2016
New penguin exhibit opening at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo
(CHICAGO) The public is getting its first peek at the penguins returning to Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. The zoo is holding a grand opening for the new Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove on ...
Oct 06, 2016
CPS warns parents of ‘clown threats’ at schools including Disney
(CHICAGO) Several Chicago Public Schools have apparently been named in the kind of threatening clown-related Facebook posts that have popped up all over the country, parents were warned Wednesday. Dis...
Oct 06, 2016
WEATHER – Variable clouds with showers and scattered thunderstorms. High 77F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM 10/06/16 WARM DAY ON THURSDAY AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT…RAIN STAYS IN THE FORECAST INTO FRIDAY THEN LOTS OF SUNSHINE FOR THE WEEKEND Today | Variabl...
Oct 06, 2016
Police: Man found with fatal gunshot wound near Willis Tower
(CHICAGO) A 26-year-old man found with a gunshot wound to the chest a block south of the Willis Tower Wednesday night committed suicide, according to Chicago Police. He was found about 7:30 p.m. on a ...
Oct 06, 2016
Cops: Clown sighting at Waukegan elementary was fake
(WAUKEGAN) A report of three people in clown masks taunting children at an elementary school in north suburban Waukegan Tuesday afternoon turned out to be fake, police said. Students initially told st...
Oct 06, 2016
Person hit by Blue Line train at Division station
A person was hit by a train early Thursday at the Division Blue Line station in Wicker Park. | Network Video Productions (CHICAGO) A person was critically injured when he was hit by a CTA Blue Line tr...
Oct 06, 2016
Aldermen, Mayor Take Advantage of Face Value Cubs Tickets
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Most of the aldermen are taking the Cubs up on buying face-value playoff tickets and the mayor says he is too. Hard to believe a Chicago mayor has to buy Cubs ti...
Oct 05, 2016
