Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Worldwide terrorism has caused beefed up security at many big public places in Chicago and now more is now planned for McCormick Place. Off duty cops have been w...

Surveillance photo of the car that intentionally struck a skateboarder Wednesday afternoon in Gurnee. | Gurnee Police Department photo   (GURNEE) A skateboarder was hurt in an intentional hit-and...

.By John dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is reacting to the Orlando gay nightclub massacre that left at least 50 people dead and 53 wounded. Emanuel issued a statement saying...

By Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM 890 Traffic and Transportation (CHICAGO) Closures for pavement repairs begin on northbound Kingery Highway (Illinois 83) between Grove Avenue and Irving Park Road (Illinois 19),...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget fight with House Speaker Michael Madigan is well known across Illinois. But the Republican now is seeking to extend the scuffle to Illinois At...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois says if there were any mistakes made during his time in office they were “honest” ones. A grand jury has been conducting a pro...

(CHICAGO) Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has launched a petition drive to impose a Chicago mayor term limit and create an elected consumer advocate position. The Chicago Democrat announced efforts Sun...

(CHICAGO) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the city won’t be intimidated after a shooting inside a Florida gay nightclub left at least 50 people dead. Emanuel says in a Sunday statement that he l...

(CHICAGO) The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is releasing for the first time guidelines for how much shut-eye kids should be getting. But the group is telling parents not to lose too much sleep th...

(GRAYSLAKE) Lake County sheriff's deputies saved a man from a drug overdose Friday afternoon in north suburban unincorporated Grayslake. Deputies responding at 1:17 p.m. to a call of an overdose at a ...