Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(CHICAGO) Police pulled a man's body out of Lake Michigan Wednesday evening in Montrose Harbor in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side. Police responded to a call of a body in the harbor near the...

(CHICAGO) A group of 51 suburban families filed a federal lawsuit against their Illinois school district, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday, alleging that t...

(WHEATON) Bond was set at $100,000 Wednesday for a 44-year-old Aurora man accused of fondling a woman's foot at a west suburban Warrenville library last year. Omar Carlton, of the 1000 block of 5th Av...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel is going to court to try to save the Lucas Museum for Chicago. Emanuel is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to throw out the Friends of the Par...

(CHICAGO) A man was critically injured Monday afternoon when he was struck by an SUV in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side. Joshua Thomas, 26, was driving a 2000 Dodge Durango in the 3500 b...

By Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM 890 News (WILMINGTON) A special event is being held on Saturday, May 7, 2016 at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmingon, Illinois to view the 23 bison cows that arri...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Passengers are now allowed by Amtrak to take bicycles aboard Hiawatha trains running between Milwaukee and Chicago. The Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that the service permitting b...

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to appease a fictional horror character called Slender Man is appealing a judge’s decision that keeps h...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Officials say an Illinois woman shot in a drive-by shooting on a Wisconsin interstate has been declared brain dead and is only being kept on life support to preserve her org...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 Some rain next hour or so. Ending NW-SE, then Chilly Northerly lake breezes Wednesday. A big warm up later this week...