Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Nick Gale, WLS News (CHICAGO) Chicago Public Schools is suing former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, seeking $65 million in damages and losses related to a contract scam. CPS filed the lawsuit agains...

Armando Romero-Gutierrez | Kane County state’s attorney’s office (AURORA) An west suburban man was convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12 over the course of...

(CHICAGO) A man has been charged with illegally possessing and dealing up to 60 firearms, at least two of which ended up in the hands of Chicago gang members. Lazaro Salas, 32, of Chicago, faces one c...

(CHICAGO) The Congress Parkway Bridge over the Chicago River will be closed to traffic during the early morning hours Friday for final installation and testing of new equipment. The closures will be l...

(SCHAUMBURG) Bond has been set at $150,000 Wednesday for a 42-year-old man charged with having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl in northwest suburban Schaumburg. Andrew Payne, of the 1300...

(JOLIET) Joliet police have opened a homicide investigation after a man and woman were found dead in the southwest suburb Wednesday afternoon. Michael Oram, 48, and Jamie Wills, 43, were both found de...

(CHICAGO) A man was critically injured in a motorcycle crash early Thursday in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side. The 26-year-old man fell off his motorcycle at 12:50 p.m. in the 320...

By Bill Cameron, WLS News (CHICAGO) In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Ohio Governor John Kasich is campaigning in the Chicago suburbs. Out in west suburban Lisle, Kasich told a p...

By Nick Gale, WLS News   (CHICAGO) A federal judge is pushing Chicago attorneys to move faster when it comes to the fight over the George Lucas museum. A judge says the attorneys must move faster...

By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Reginald Potts has been sentenced to life in prison for killing ex-girlfriend, Nailah Franklin, and dumping her naked body in Calumet City in 2007. Potts ...