Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
WEATHER – An area of showers and storms early, then partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms possible. High 87F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Thursday, August 18, 2016 KEEPING AND EYE ON SATURDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THRU…COOLER AND DRIER AIR MOVES IN BEHIND THE FRONT. AND SOME TEMPS ...
Aug 18, 2016
2016 Vote: Trump up 11 points in Indiana, Bayh with comfortable lead
By Gregory Krieg, CNN New presidential battleground state polling out Wednesday shows Hillary Clinton with double-digit leads in Colorado and Virginia and effectively tied with Donald Trump in Iowa. B...
Aug 17, 2016
Hoosier Lottery says profit up 16 percent from year ago
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Hoosier Lottery says it is turning over 16 percent more in profits to state government than a year ago. Lottery officials project a $281 million profit during the 2016 budget y...
Aug 17, 2016
City Hall: Searching for new solutions for old problems
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A City Council hearing on how to reform police oversight produced one simple-sounding solution to the police-involved shooting scandal. At City Hall, the alderme...
Aug 17, 2016
Prosecutors: West Side man beaten to death after Facebook feud
( CHICAGO) A fight that started on Facebook ended with three people using a baseball bat, broom handle and wooden beam to beat a 23-year-old man to death earlier this month on the West Side, prosecuto...
Aug 16, 2016
Rahm’s Police Shakeup
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 (CHICAGO) Former interim Supt John Escalante is leaving to become police chief at Northeastern Illinois University. Deputy chief David McNaughton, who signed off on cops si...
Aug 16, 2016
Rosemont goes ahead on construction of new baseball stadium
By Adam Chappelle, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO)When the Cubs were fighting with the city of Chicago over renovations at Wrigley Field, the village of Rosemont had an idea- move to the suburbs. While the ...
Aug 16, 2016
Suburban man charged in fatal DUI crash
By Adam Chappelle, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) A 41-year-old man has been charged in a DUI crash that killed a 31-year-old man and his daughter in south suburban Chicago Heights Sunday morning. Police s...
Aug 16, 2016
Police Searching After Two Found Dead in Sycamore
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (SYCAMORE)Police in Sycamore are warning residents to be on alert after a mother and her son were found dead in their home. DeKalb County Sheriffs officers says it appear...
Aug 16, 2016
Cubs Fire DJ for Mocking Cubs Reliever Over Domestic Violence
(CHICAGO) It’s a modern-day version of a ballpark organist playing “Three Blind Mice” when there was a call that went against the home team. But this went a little too far. The Chica...
Aug 16, 2016
