Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The Kane County State’s Attorney has been appointed as the special prosecutor in the murder charge against former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke. Josep...

(CHICAGO) The Chicago Police Department says it will release videos related to last week’s fatal police shooting of an 18-year-old suspect. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the videos wil...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) One of the Chicago Cub’s biggest fans, is recovering after knee surgery. Ronnie “Woo Woo” Wickers tells the Jonathan Brandmeier Show on WLS that h...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) DePaul University is banning a high-profile conservative speaker from campus. The Chicago Sun Times reports DePaul is refusing to allow commentator and writer Be...

By Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Lolla Cares is the division of Lollapalooza which promotes education, service and environmental sustainability through the duration of the four-day festival i...

By Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) The city of Chicago, event organizers and emergency management services announced on Tuesday a “successful” 25th Anniversary Lollapalooza, which t...

(CHICAGO) Chicago’s inspector general has found the city agency that reviews police shootings had no records on six shootings in recent years. The inspector general released a report Tuesday tha...

(ELKHART) Police have identified the three men killed after two masked men forced their way into a northern Indiana home where 10 people had gathered and started shooting. Elkhart police on Tuesday sa...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, after passing two massive property tax increases, now wants to raise the city utility tax. The re...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk is criticizing his party’s nominee for President, Donald Trump, for Trump’s decision to attac...