Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

  BENTON, Ill. (AP) Illinois State Rep. Gary Forby says legislation that Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law will extend statutes of limitations on crimes that financially exploit the elderly. Forb...

ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) - Five Notre Dame football players have been arrested after Indiana State Police say a trooper found marijuana and a loaded handgun in their car. A state police statement says the...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (SPRINGFIELD) The Illinois Lottery is bringing back an old favorite. Officials have announced that the Wheel of Fortune instant game is coming back into rotation. The game co...

After 18 years at Lincoln Park Zoo, Molly the Amur tiger was euthanized this week as her health went downhill from advanced age. | Lincoln Park Zoo  (CHICAGO) A popular, longtime resident of Linc...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

(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 ...

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...