Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The first building isn’t scheduled to come down until April, but the developer of the old Children’s Memorial Hospital says the demolition will likely l...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Another day, another deadlock in Springfield, this time over the stalled state aid for colleges and universities. A new so-called “compromise” from t...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The woman known as the “Serial Stowaway” has been sentenced to six months of house arrest. Marilyn Hartman’s sentence come after her latest escapa...

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Democratic Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is denouncing Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Preckwinkle was asked on “The B...

(PARK RIDGE) A Park Ridge man who died Tuesday is the 15th cold-related death of the winter in Cook County. Corey Hamann, 27, was discovered in the parking lot behind an apartment building in the 0-10...

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A former Chicago police officer was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for a 2012 videotaped beating of a convenience store clerk. Aldo Brown was found guil...

By John Dempsey, WLS News (CHICAGO) Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez is defending her record in an interview on “The Big John Howell Show”, on WLS. Alvarez is contending with crit...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 MUCH Colder weather this morning….and cold air staying in place through the end of the work week. A seperate...

An artist’s rendering of the bridge being built over Lake Shore Drive at 35th Street. | City of Chicago   (CHICAGO) Temporary lane closures on Lake Shore Drive will begin Wednesday on the S...

(CHICAGO) The president of a prominent Chicago real estate company best known for developing Block 37 in the Loop has been convicted on fraud charges related to the redevelopment of the old Goldblatt'...