Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
‘Pizza Man’ burgled cars to buy pies in Riverside
Dany Ortiz | Riverside police (RIVERSIDE) Police say a 21-year-old man staked out pizza joints during a monthlong west suburban burglary spree - not to empty their registers, but to find a good slice ...
Jul 13, 2016
Rauner announces group to study education funding formula
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner has announced a commission to help overhaul Illinois’ outdated school funding formula. The Republican told reporters on Tuesday that the bipartisan group of 25 p...
Jul 12, 2016
Public-private project to improve truck access to Joliet hub
(JOLIET) Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says state and local governments are partnering with a private company to relieve traffic congestion and provide easier access to a major commercial transport hub n...
Jul 12, 2016
Illinois replacing PARCC test for high school students
(CHICAGO) The Illinois State Board of Education says it will no longer administer the Partnership for the Achievement of Readiness for College and Careers standardized test to high school students. Th...
Jul 12, 2016
WEATHER – Partly cloudy early followed by scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 88F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Tuesday, July 12, 2016 Tomorrow is the better chance of wind and hail. We have to watch the complex of storms to the west this morning to see...
Jul 12, 2016
Man dies after being pulled from Lake Michigan
(CHICAGO) A man died Thursday evening after he was pulled from the waters of Lake Michigan near the 31st Street Beach on the South Side, police said. Rescue crews responded about 8:30 p.m. for the swi...
Jul 12, 2016
Public-private project to improve truck access to Joliet hub
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says state and local governments are partnering with a private company to relieve traffic congestion and provide easier access to a major commercial tran...
Jul 11, 2016
Attorneys to make sentencing recommendations for Blagojevich
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys face a midnight deadline for motions regarding the sentence they’d like former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to receive when his c...
Jul 11, 2016
UPDATE: Extra-alarm fire reported at Far South Side scrapyard
(CHICAGO) Firefighters are battling a large fire that led to a HazMat situation at a Far South Side scrapyard Monday afternoon. Crews are at the scene of the scrapyard fire at 3033 E. 106th St., accor...
Jul 11, 2016
UPDATE: Naked man stole truck in Gold Coast, jumped into lake
(CHICAGO) A naked man caused a disturbance Monday morning when he stole a landscaping truck from the Gold Coast neighborhood, crashed it on Lake Shore Drive, then jumped in Lake Michigan. Officers res...
Jul 11, 2016
