Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Madigan reaches $18.5 million settlement with Peoples Gas
(CHICAGO) Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Tuesday two settlements totaling $18.5 million with Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company and its former parent company Integrys Energy Group, and curren...
May 11, 2016
Two of five wolf pups born at Brookfield Zoo released into wild
Chicago Zoological Society veterinary and animal care staff perform neonatal examinations on Blaze and Brooke, two 5-day-old Mexican gray wolf pups, prior to their departure from Brookfield Zoo. | Chi...
May 10, 2016
ACLU seeks to enter case over transgender locker room access
CHICAGO (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois says it will seek to intervene in a federal lawsuit seeking to block a suburban Chicago school district from allowing a transgender studen...
May 10, 2016
Suburban lawyer guilty of helping clients cheat way into asylum
(CHICAGO) A federal jury convicted a suburban immigration lawyer Monday who was accused during a weeks-long trial of helping clients cheat their way into asylum in the United States. The jury found Ro...
May 10, 2016
UPDATE: Lockdown lifted at Cook County Jail after Mother’s Day call-offs
(CHICAGO) A lockdown at Cook County Jail was lifted Monday morning after more than 20 percent of its correctional officers called off work Sunday, possibly because of Mother's Day. The lockdown at 27t...
May 10, 2016
Police: Driver dies after crashing SUV into Barrington school
Authorities investigate after an SUV slammed into a Barrington middle school Monday afternoon, killing the driver. | Barrington 220 School District (BARRINGTON) An SUV slammed into the front entrance ...
May 10, 2016
Rauner: Dems Holding School Budget Hostage
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (LA GRANGE, IL) In the state budget impasse, Gov. Bruce Rauner was campaigning for reform Monday in the suburbs. Still no deal and Rauner is now claiming the Democrats are...
May 09, 2016
Armed Bank Robber Shot By Police
By Nick Gale, WLS News (CHICAGO) Chicago police shot and killed an armed bank robbery suspect Monday morning in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Police Supt. Eddie Johnson says o...
May 09, 2016
Bald eagle found shot in Southern Illinois recovering well
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - A bald eagle found with a gunshot wound in Southern Illinois is recovering and is expected to fly again after having surgery this week. The News-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1SSz...
May 08, 2016
WEATHER: Sunny Mother’s Day, a wet Monday
By Todd Borek, Weather Channel Meteorologist (CHICAGO) STAYING DRY THROUGH THE REST OF MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND ALTHOUGH UNSETTLED WEATHER RETURNS EARLY THIS WORK WEEK. Mother’s Day | A mainly...
May 08, 2016
