Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Tolls Could Be Coming to Stevenson
By Nick Gale, WLS News (CHICAGO) Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to increase lanes on the Stevenson Expressway, and the portion to be improved could end up as a toll road. Rauner is pushing a plan that would ...
Feb 04, 2016
Doctors Still Slow to Approve Medical Marijuana
By Nick Gale, WLS News (CHICAGO) Illinois continues to approve patients to use medical marijuana as industry insiders keep a close eye on the program. Some 400 more approval letters were sent out by t...
Feb 04, 2016
WEATHER – Morning clouds will give way to afternoon sunshine, a little colder. High around 30F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Thursday, February 4th, 2016 Dry into the weekend before snow showers develop from Monday into Tuesday with colder air settling in. SUNRISE A...
Feb 04, 2016
NU gets $311,778 to study red-light camera program
(CHICAGO) Northwestern University will be paid $311,778 to study red-light camera enforcement and chart a path forward for a despised program built on a $2 million bribery scandal that paid a convicte...
Feb 04, 2016
Woman charged with posing as federal official in housing scam
(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 ...
Feb 04, 2016
Ex-LAZ Parking exec to plead guilty to alleged Chicago parking meter scam
(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...
Feb 03, 2016
Judge tosses woman’s ‘Go Topless’ lawsuit
(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...
Feb 03, 2016
WEATHER – Dense fog this morning and windy with cloudy skies. High 37F
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...
Feb 03, 2016
Man robs Naperville bank
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...
Feb 03, 2016
Man charged with drug-induced homicide in Mundelein
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...
Feb 03, 2016
