Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Duckworth Pounces on Kirk “Drug Dealer in Chief” Comment
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for Senate, challenger Tammy Duckworth is calling U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk “unhinged” for likening President Obama to a “drug dealer in ...
Aug 23, 2016
Was painting by famed living artist? US judge to decide
(CHICAGO) A federal judge in Chicago is set to issue a verdict in a peculiar civil trial over a celebrated Scottish-born artist’s insistence that he did not paint a landscape work that was once ...
Aug 23, 2016
Fists not football: Brain injuries seen in domestic assaults
(CHICAGO) Debilitating brain injuries from repeated head blows can happen in football, but mounting evidence says they can happen in domestic violence too. Experts believe many cases go untreated in a...
Aug 23, 2016
WEATHER – Mostly sunny. High 82F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast August 23, 2016 BEAUTIFUL START TO THE WORK WEEK WITH VERY COMFORTABLE TEMPS AND HUMIDITY. SHOWER AND STORM CHANCES RETURN WEDNESDAY. SUNRISE...
Aug 23, 2016
CPD violating due process of seven cops facing firing, FOP says
(CHICAGO) Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo on Monday accused the Chicago Police Department of violating the due process of seven officers who stand to lose their jobs for allegedly cove...
Aug 23, 2016
10 charged with government benefits fraud totaling more than $6M
(CHICAGO) A northwest suburban man is the tenth person to be charged this week with defrauding government agencies out of more than $6 million by falsely obtaining benefits to which they were not enti...
Aug 23, 2016
Child dead, 3 injured in extra-alarm blaze in South Chicago
Firefighters battled an extra-alarm blaze early Tuesday at a three-story apartment building in South Chicago. | Chicago Fire Department (CHICAGO) A child has died and three other people were in...
Aug 23, 2016
9 charged with defrauding CHA out of more than $1 million
(CHICAGO) Nine people have been charged with defrauding the Chicago Housing Authority and other government agencies out of more than $1 million by falsely obtaining benefits to which they were not ent...
Aug 22, 2016
Car found 200 feet into Batavia woods after crash
(BATAVIA) A man had to be extricated from their car Sunday night after it was found rolled over and 200 feet into a wooded area in west suburban Batavia. Emergency crews responded to the single-vehicl...
Aug 22, 2016
Lead warning at Indiana housing complex roils residents
(CHICAGO) More than 1,000 residents of a northwest Indiana public housing complex have been left in a state of panic and uncertainty since authorities informed them last month that their homes must be...
Aug 22, 2016
