Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Archbishop of Mexico City to Visit Des Plaines
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) The Archbishop of Mexico City will celebrate mass this Sunday at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines. It will be the first time that the Archbish...
Aug 19, 2016
Cook County reports year’s 1st human case of West Nile virus
(CHICAGO) Health officials have confirmed the season’s first human case of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in Cook County. Cook County Department of Public Health officials said Thursday that...
Aug 19, 2016
WEATHER – Isolated showers and thunderstorms during the morning. Mostly cloudy skies this afternoon. High 88F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Friday, August 19, 2016 An active pattern in store with more storms returning Friday Night into Saturday. Some storms on Saturday Could be severe as t...
Aug 19, 2016
Terror suspect: ‘They’re going to cut my head off’
Adel Daoud | U.S. Marshals Service (CHICAGO) Adel Daoud has been locked up for nearly four years, ever since he allegedly tried to blow up a downtown Chicago bar. Now, with his trial still at least si...
Aug 19, 2016
Police: Suicidal man arrested after standoff in Des Plaines
(DES PLAINES) A suicidal man was arrested after he barricaded himself in a home in northwest suburban Des Plaines Thursday morning, police said. At 11:23 a.m., police were called to the 1000 block of ...
Aug 19, 2016
Illinois Sending Supplies to Flood Ravaged Louisiana
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Illinois is sending supplies down to Louisiana as residents there recover from the deadly and destructive flooding. Tim Neitzel with the Illinois Department of Cent...
Aug 18, 2016
Eddie Johnson to Fire Seven Officers
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago’s Top Cop Eddie Johnson says he is recommending the Police Board fire seven officers who were on the scene the night that officer Jason VanDyke fir...
Aug 18, 2016
Woman With Cancer Beat to Death in Zion
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Police in north suburban Zion are searing for the person responsible for beating a cancer patient to death. Police say 46-year-old Shannon Vincell, of Springfield, ...
Aug 18, 2016
2016 Vote: Duckworth mocking Kirk
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) US Senate, challenger Tammy Duckworth is mocking Sen Mark Kirk for changing his mind so many times about who he’ll write-in for president. Down in Spri...
Aug 18, 2016
Cook County judge accused of letting law clerk hear cases
(CHICAGO) A Cook County judge won’t be allowed to hear cases amid allegations she let a law clerk put on a robe and preside over at least two cases. The office of Chief Judge Timothy Evans said ...
Aug 18, 2016
