Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
CTA adding extra service for Magnificent Mile Lights Festival and Bears game this weekend
(CHICAGO) The CTA will be adding extra service over the weekend for the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival and the Bears game. On Saturday, the CTA will provide longer Brown, Blue, Orange and Pink Line ...
Nov 21, 2015
UPDATE: Winter storm warnings, watches in effect as season’s first snowstorm approaches
UPDATES WITH WATCHES, WARNINGS (CHICAGO) Winter storm watches and warnings have been put in place across the entire Chicago area as the season's first snowstorm approaches, bringing with it the potent...
Nov 20, 2015
WEATHER – Partly cloudy skies this morning will become overcast during the afternoon.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Raymond Stagich WLS-AM Friday, November 20th, 2015 **Winter Storm Warning Friday Evening through Saturday Afternoon. 2 to 8 inches of snow possible in Cook County. 2 to ...
Nov 20, 2015
Season’s first snowstorm could bring Chicago area 6 inches
(CHICAGO) The Chicago area is expected to get its first measurable snow of the season this weekend, with a winter storm watch issued for Friday night through Saturday and as much as six inches in the ...
Nov 20, 2015
Woman carrying gasoline container robs Southwest Side bank
Surveillance photos of the woman suspected of robbing a U.S. Bank branch Thursday evening on the Southwest Side. | FBI (CHICAGO) A woman carrying a gasoline container robbed a U.S. Bank branch Thursda...
Nov 20, 2015
Detectives hit wall in investigation into dismembered toddler
(ROCKFORD) They were the last known people to have seen a Rockford toddler alive before his remains were found in the Garfield Park Lagoon in September. A friend of the death child's mother, Kamel Har...
Nov 20, 2015
Teen charged with dropping infant from 8th-floor window to stay jailed: judge
Mubashra Uddin | Cook County sheriff’s office (CHICAGO) Mubashra Uddin has been depressed since she was accused of dropping her newborn baby from a window of her family's eighth-floor Uptown apa...
Nov 20, 2015
Former West Side cop pleads to misdemeanor charge
(CHICAGO) A run of bad luck continued Wednesday for a former Chicago cop who solicited bribes from a liquor store owner who also was an FBI informant. Wearing sweat pants, a hoodie and a surgical boot...
Nov 20, 2015
Bridge inspection prompts Bishop Ford lane closures
(CHICAGO) Routine inspection of the Bishop Ford Freeway bridge will prompt the closures of one lane in each direction Sunday morning. Weather permitting, the inspection will last from 6 a.m. until noo...
Nov 20, 2015
Travel agent scammed people trying to get to Mecca, gets 9 1/2 years
(CHICAGO) They thought Rashid Minhas could help them make a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca. But now, one of the travel agent's former customers knows "a lot of people who would like to see him...
Nov 20, 2015
