Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Police Board launches search for new Chicago Police superintendent
(CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel's revamped Police Board on Thursday launched a nationwide search for a new police superintendent amid concern that the furor over the Laquan McDonald shooting video and a ...
Dec 11, 2015
Help from Fardon’s office could be key in federal probe of CPD
(CHICAGO) When Chicago's top fed appeared beside U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch for a nationally televised, 30-minute press conference on Monday, he spent less than three minutes answering questi...
Dec 11, 2015
Elderly woman drives through restaurant window in Joliet
(JOLIET) An elderly woman drove her vehicle through a restaurant window Thursday afternoon in southwest suburban Joliet. The 85-year-old woman turned her vehicle off the street about 12:45 p.m. and ac...
Dec 10, 2015
Zopp: Need Special Prosecutor in McDonald Shooting
By Bill Cameron, WLS News (CHICAGO) In the race for U.S. Senate, Democrat Andrea Zopp is calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor in the first degree murder case against Jason Van Dyke for ...
Dec 10, 2015
Ex-IPRA boss testifies in Chicago Police Cmdr. Glenn Evans’ trial
(CHICAGO) The former administrator of Independent Police Review Authority testified Thursday that he had asked his investigators to make sure Chicago Police Cmdr. Glenn Evans' gun was swabbed "inside ...
Dec 10, 2015
Gary man wanted for strangulation, criminal confinement
(CHICAGO) Authorities in northwest Indiana are searching for a Gary man accused of multiple felonies, including criminal confinement, strangulation and forced entry into his estranged wife's home. Wil...
Dec 10, 2015
Emanuel apologizes for LaQuan McDonald shooting
By John Dempsey, WLS News (CHICAGO) Mayor Emanuel delivered an emotional, 30 minute speech today before the Chicago City Council, apologizing for the police shooting of 17 year old LaQuan McDonald, wh...
Dec 09, 2015
Former Rep. Connie Howard gets 3 months in prison
(CHICAGO) Former State Rep. Connie Howard, a once-prominent South Side Democrat, was sentenced Tuesday to three months in prison for fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Springfield. Howa...
Dec 09, 2015
Crash in Kennedy express lanes snarls morning commute
(CHICAGO) All express lanes of the inbound Kennedy Expressway were temporarily closed after a downtown rollover crash Wednesday morning. The three-vehicle crash happened just after 6 a.m. on inbound I...
Dec 09, 2015
NullCrew hacker pleads guilty
(CHICAGO) A Tennessee man admitted in federal court Tuesday that he joined the hacker group NullCrew in an attack on a "large Canadian telecommunications company" two years ago, the Chicago Sun-Times ...
Dec 09, 2015
