Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
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
Arrest made in Illinois State Fair stabbing
(CHICAGO) Illinois State Police say a 17-year-old girl has been arrested in the weekend stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at the Illinois State Fair. A statement from the agency says the stabbing occurre...
Aug 22, 2016
Prosecutors seek 30-year sentence for ex-Illinois guardsman
(CHICAGO) Prosecutors want a judge to impose a maximum 30-year prison sentence on a former Illinois National Guard soldier, calling his plot to attack a U.S. military facility “a contemptible be...
Aug 22, 2016
Illinois latest state to expand domestic workers’ rights
(CHICAGO) Illinois has become the latest state to grant legal protections to nannies, house keepers and in-home caregivers with a domestic workers “bill of rights.” The Illinois rules were...
Aug 22, 2016
Chicago cops round up 100 in gang sweep
(CHICAGO) Chicago Police rounded up 100 people in a sweep targeting gang members in the city's most violent neighborhoods, Police Supt. Eddie Johnson announced Friday at police headquarters. Arrests b...
Aug 21, 2016
