Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(CHICAGO) New details in the story of the fired Chicago Police Detective who escaped punishment after shooting and killing a black woman on the west side in 2012. The Chicago Tribune reports that Dant...

(CHICAGO) NBC dramas "Chicago PD" and "Chicago Fire" will be filming Thursday and Friday nights, shutting down several downtown streets. From 7 p.m. Thursday until 2 a.m. Friday, "PD" shoots will clos...

(CHICAGO) Minimum-wage workers in the Cook County suburbs are getting a raise, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. County Board members Wednesday approved an ordinance that will boost the minimum hourly wa...

(CHICAGO) Additional CTA train and bus service will be provided this weekend for the World Series games at Wrigley Field. More frequent Red Line trains will run start running before the scheduled 7:08...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Thursday, October 27, 2016 After a cloudy & cool Thursday, clearing & warmer on Friday with a high in the mid-60s. Even warmer on Saturday wit...

Chicago Police investigate in the 1000 block of North Willard Court, where a 35-year-old man was found shot to death in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle early Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. | Ash...

(CLEVELAND) The Chicago Cubs have scored their first World Series run in 71 years. In fact, they scored their first five World Series runs since 1945, beating the Cleveland Indians, 5-1, and evening t...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) At City Hall, the chief of the new Civilian Office of Police Accountability is assembling a group of community advisers who, she says, aren’t “ye...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The head of the Better Government Association says the Chicago Cubs did the right thing, in withdrawing their offer to sell World Series tickets at Wrigley Field...

(ARLINGTON HEIGHTS) Multiple trains on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line are running behind schedule Tuesday morning after a vehicle got stuck on the tracks in northwest suburban Arlington Heights....