Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(CHICAGO) A Chicago woman has been charged with posing as a federal housing official to scam homeowners out of money. Cynthia Wallace, 45, is charged with one count of falsely assuming and pretending ...

(CHICAGO) A former parking firm executive charged with steering a $22 million contract for Chicago's parking meters to a favored company and collecting $90,000 in kickbacks plans to plead guilty, cour...

(CHICAGO) A federal lawsuit filed by a Japanese woman fined for exposing her breasts at North Avenue Beach on national "Go Topless Day" has been dismissed. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman t...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Ray’s Note: Changeable weather. FOG and Drizzly weather over Chicagoland turns Windy/ drying out the rest o...

Surveillance footage of a man suspected in a Naperville bank robbery Monday. | FBI (NAPERVILLE) A man robbed a U.S. Bank branch in west suburban Naperville Monday evening, according to the FBI. The ma...

Joseph W. Crisara III | Mundelein police   (MUNDELEIN) Bond was set at $200,000 Tuesday for a northwest suburban man accused of selling the drugs that led to another man's December death in Munde...

By Bill Cameron & Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool has ordered big cuts in response to the teachers union rejection of his “serious” officer...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (SPRINGFIELD, IL) In the state budget crisis, the backlog of unpaid bills is rising from the current $7 billion to $10 – $12 billion by the end of May. Some of the u...

(AURORA) A former Aurora man who ran several fraudulent Mexican real estate businesses was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for swindling timeshare owners. Gilbert Frett Freeman, 44, pleaded gu...

Julia Gutierrez | Kane County state’s attorney’s office   (GENEVA) A 53-year-old woman has been charged with murder for poisoning her husband, whose body was found last week at their ...