Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Metra UP North service halted after train strikes pedestrian
(CHICAGO) Trains on Metra's Union Pacific North Line are stopped in both directions Friday morning after a train struck and killed a pedestrian on the North Side, officials said. Train No. 320 hit a p...
Oct 09, 2015
Durbin Hopes for “Cooler Heads” In House
By Nick Gale, WLS News (CHICAGO) One Illinois lawmaker is reacting House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stepping out of the Speaker race. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) hopes cooler heads will pr...
Oct 08, 2015
Update: Barbara Byrd-Bennett to Plead Guilty
By Nick Gale, WLS News (CHICAGO) U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon revealed Thursday afternoon that former head of Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, plans to plead guilty to charges that...
Oct 08, 2015
Chicago Cab Drivers Go On Strike
By John Dempsey, WLS News (CHICAGO) It might be more difficult to get a taxicab today in Chicago. A lot of cabbies have decided to go on strike to protest competition from Uber, Lyft, and other ridesh...
Oct 08, 2015
McHenry: Strike Negotiations on Tap for Tonight
By Nick Gale, 89 WLS-AM News Teachers and school officials in McHenry meet again at 7:30 tonight to try and hash out a contract. Meanwhile, students fear missing homecoming activities. The last nine h...
Oct 08, 2015
Judge approves refunds for buyers of Kevin Trudeau’s diet book
(CHICAGO) The Federal Trade Commission plans to start refunding customers duped into buying fraudster Kevin Trudeau's diet book "as soon as possible" after a judge gave final approval to the plan, its...
Oct 08, 2015
Street closures begin downtown ahead of Chicago Marathon
(CHICAGO) Some street closures have already been out into place Wednesday as the city begins preparation for Sunday's Chicago Marathon. Near Grant Park, where the race will begin and end, Balbo is clo...
Oct 08, 2015
WEATHER – Sunny to partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Breezy. High 76F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS 400AM CT Thursday October 8, 2015 THE STALLED COLD FRONT JUST TO OUR SOUTH LIFTS NORTH EARLY THURSDAY AS A WARM FRONT WARM THURSDAY AS RAIN MOVES IN LATE...
Oct 08, 2015
Driver seriously injured when motorcycle hits deer on Edens
Paramedics load an injured motorcyclist into an ambulance after a motorcycle hit a deer on the Edens Expressway early Thursday. | Network Video Productions (NORTHFIELD) One person was seriously injure...
Oct 08, 2015
VW’S Boss Goes to Washington
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Volkswagen's top American boss goes to Capitol Hill, today, where lawmakers looking into the company's emissions cheating scandal will ask him a lot of questi...
Oct 08, 2015
