Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Overnight I-290 closures start Saturday in Elk Grove Village
(ELK GROVE VILLAGE) Overnight lane closures are planned on I-290 Saturday night as part of the ongoing Route 390 construction project. One lane on eastbound I-290 will close between Higgins and Route ...
Mar 12, 2016
Beefed Up Patrols for St. Pat’s Day
By Nick Gale, WLS News, (CHICAGO) State and local police are beefing up traffic enforcement starting today. Police will be conducting roadside safety checks and beefing up patrols through St. P...
Mar 12, 2016
Updated: Cancellation and Fights at Trump Rally
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) The UIC Pavilion, in Chicago, can hold some 10,000 people and several thousand were inside when an announcement came Friday evening that the event was bei...
Mar 12, 2016
WEATHER – Cooler this morning. High clouds with clear sky. This afternoon. Partly cloudy. High 54F.
Forecast Summary WLS-AM Forecast Meteorologist Ray Stagich Friday, March 11th, 2016 GULF OF MEXICO STORM SYSTEMS IMPACTING US INTO THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK….A MILD, WET FORECAST TO TAKE U...
Mar 11, 2016
Renegade state legislator facing challenger with Obama support
(CHICAGO) On a crisp morning, a bundled-up Juliana Stratton went door to door in the South Shore neighborhood, making her pitch for why voters should pick her over incumbent Rep. Ken Dunkin in Illinoi...
Mar 11, 2016
Fire officials: 10 people injured in South Shore car crash
(CHICAGO) Ten people were injured in a five-vehicle crash Thursday night in the South Shore neighborhood. The crash occurred in the 7400 block of South Jeffery Avenue at 10:15 p.m., according to Chica...
Mar 11, 2016
UPDATE: Joliet police investigating double homicide
UPDATES WITH AUTOPSY RESULTS (JOLIET) Joliet police have opened a homicide investigation after a man and woman were found beaten to death in the southwest suburb Wednesday afternoon. Michael Oram, 48,...
Mar 11, 2016
South Side woman dies on flight from Japan
(CHICAGO) A 70-year-old woman died early Thursday while aboard an airplane en route from Japan to O'Hare International Airport. Patricia E. Moy, who lived in the 300 block of West 27th Street, was pro...
Mar 11, 2016
Better disguise? 9 tipsters ID alleged bank robber from photo
Surveillance photos of the man suspected of robbing a TCF Bank branch Sunday afternoon in Norwood Park. | FBI (CHICAGO) A man suspected in two Northwest Side bank robberies over the last month apparen...
Mar 11, 2016
UPDATE: Downed power lines close Galena Boulevard in Aurora crash
(AURORA) A woman was injured in a crash Thursday morning that left a stretch of Galena Boulevard temporarily closed due to downed power lines in west suburban Aurora. About 8:10 a.m., a 2012 Chevrolet...
Mar 10, 2016
