Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Warm Chicago weather breaks 121-year-old record
(CHICAGO) Unusually warm Chicago temperatures broke a 121-year-old record Sunday. Shortly after 1 p.m., the temperature at O'Hare Airport hit 62 degrees, topping the previous record of 61 degrees set ...
Feb 28, 2016
What’s Going on at White Sox Spring Training
By Connor McKnight, WLS-AM 890 Sports (GLENDALE, Ariz.) Out on the backfields at Camelback Ranch, White Sox starters Chris Sale and Mat Latos took the hill and threw to living, breathing, hones...
Feb 27, 2016
Licensing Professionals Goes Paperless
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Illinois is making it easier for certain professionals to renew their state license. The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation is going paperless ...
Feb 27, 2016
Durbin: Trump May Change
(CHICAGO) U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the number two Democrat in the Senate, has a word of caution for his party about Donald Trump. The conventional wisdom says Democrats would love to see the R...
Feb 26, 2016
Kinzinger Reacts To Christie on Trump
By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) There is some local political reaction to today’s endorsement of Donald Trump by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) says Ch...
Feb 26, 2016
White Sox vice chairman Eddie Einhorn dies
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Sports broadcasting pioneer and long time White Sox co-owner Eddie Einhorn has died. The team issued a press release saying Einhorn passed away late Tuesday ...
Feb 25, 2016
UPDATE: Power restored, but South Shore trains remain suspended
(CHICAGO) The power outage that shut down the South Shore train line has been repaired, although service remained suspended between Chicago and northwest Indiana Thursday morning. Service was suspende...
Feb 25, 2016
Tinley Park man charged with theft from fitness center lockers
Ahmed M. Qreini | Orland Park police (ORLAND PARK) A Tinley Park man was charged Wednesday with stealing from lockers in a fitness center in southwest suburban Orland Park. Ahmed M. Qreini, 23, of the...
Feb 25, 2016
Four charged with beating teenage boy in Orland Park
Ishaak Hamdan | Orland Park police (ORLAND PARK) Four people have been charged with dragging a 17-year-old boy out of his car and beating him in the street last week in southwest suburban Orland Park....
Feb 25, 2016
South Shore Train Service Suspended Thursday Morning Due to Weather
By Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM Traffic & Transportation News (CHICAGO) According to Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Website, all train service to and from Chicago is suspended Thursday m...
Feb 25, 2016
