Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

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 ...

By Bill Cameron, WLS News (CHICAGO) Despite the winter weather, Chicago violent crime has reached record numbers so far this year. In the just concluded month of January, the Police Department says th...

  By David Mark and Karl de Vries, CNN (DES MOINES, IA) Donald Trump has a five-point lead on Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in what is likely to be the final major poll before the Iowa caucuses, while Hill...

By Ken Boone, Weather Channel Meteorologist (CHICAGO) Warm temperatires will continue through the weekend. A quick-hitting low will bring a few showers our way today after some morning fog. As the low...

(CHICAGO) A northwest suburban pharmacist who for years offered Viagra and Cialis to men without a prescription has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for selling the fake male poten...

By Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM 890 Traffic (CHICAGO) The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that beginning Friday, Jan. 29, at 10 p.m. the Halsted Street over the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) br...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Friday, January 29th, 2016 WARMUP COMING FOR THE WEEKEND…..BIG STORM TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY next week bring snow to rain then back to snow. ...