Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(CHICAGO) Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth is calling U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk “unhinged” after the Illinois Republican said President Barack Obama was “acting like the drug dealer in...

(CHICAGO) Chicago police are debunking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that department officials told him they can reduce crime by being tougher. During a Monday interview...

(CHICAGO) The Chicago Board of Education is expected to vote on a $5.4 billion budget that will include increased property taxes. However, advocacy groups are expressing opposition to the spending pla...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Ray’s Note: SOUTHWEST WINDS BRINGING UP THE HUMIDITY AND THE RAIN CHANCES LATE TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY̷...

(CHICAGO) Charges have been filed against the 15-year-old boy who was shot by a state trooper Saturday evening in Chinatown on the South Side. The boy, whose name was not released because he is a mino...

(CHICAGO) Several nightly lane and ramp closures are planned on the Stevenson Expressway starting Wednesday night for ongoing Lake Shore Drive interchange construction. The northbound I-55 entrance ra...

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 ...

(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 ...

(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...

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...