Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Ray Stagich, Weather Channel Meteorologist   (CHICAGO) It will continue to feel like summer, although we should see a cooling trend toward the weekend. between now and then, expect some rain, ...

(CHICAGO) A pregnant Chicago woman who was shot in the abdomen during another violent holiday weekend in the city later delivered a nearly full-term baby boy. The shooting Monday in the Back of the Ya...

(UNIVERSITY PARK) Governors State University has announced it is closing its Illinois Small Business Development Center and its Illinois SBDC International Trade Center due to the state’s budget...

(CHICAGO) The spotlight is on contract talks between teachers and officials with the nation’s third-largest school district as Chicago students attend the first day of school. Chicago Public Sch...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Wednesday, September 7, 2016 IT FEELS LIKE SUMMER THIS WEEK……COOLING DOWN TOWARD THE WEEKEND (BACK TO AVERAGE)…….Some...

(CHICAGO) Chicago Police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a child in a store in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side Monday night. The man, thought to be between 25 and 40,...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D- Hoffman Estates) is calling for new federal spending on police on a variety of ways. “I think that we should have more federa...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) After another violent Labor Day weekend in Chicago, the city has now recorded 512 murders for 2016, more murders than in all of 2015. 65 people were shot ove...

(CHICAGO) Metra Electric trains were running again after a power outage halted the line just outside of Chicago on the South Side Tuesday morning. Metra was notified of the outage at 8:20 a.m. after i...

(GRAYSLAKE) A woman was charged with trying to rob a credit union in north suburban Grayslake last week after authorities recorded her planning the heist with a friend. Yvette Pedrero, 23, was charged...