Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News

(CHICAGO) A former top investigator in Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority has filed a federal lawsuit against the agency and the city, alleging he was fired after he refused to change his r...

(CHICAGO) A woman died and a man was injured in a rollover crash Thursday night in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side, police said. The single-vehicle crash happened at 7:25 p.m. on Lake Sho...

(CRYSTAL LAKE) Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 16-year-old girl missing from northwest suburban Crystal Lake since Tuesday. Kalyani Sudhir | Crystal Lake police Kalyani Sudhir lef...

(ST CHARLES) A 13-year-old boy died after finishing a cross country meet Tuesday evening at a west suburban middle school. Cameron Pepera, a 7th-grader at Thompson Middle School in St. Charles, finish...

(CHICAGO) A "despondent" gunman threatened to shoot himself, several others and any responding officers in a building across the street from Plainfield Central High School Wednesday, police said. At 5...

(VOLO) An increased police presence in north suburban Volo late Wednesday was not related to the ongoing manhunt for three people suspected in the fatal shooting of police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewic...

Kristin B. Kiefer | Lake County sheriff’s office   (VOLO) A north suburban woman made a phony report to authorities that she spotted two suspects in the Fox Lake cop-killer manhunt late Wed...

Dajuan Brown (CHICAGO) A Chicago man was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to running a violent sex trafficking ring on the West Side for six years. Dajuan Brown, 39, ple...

By John Dempsey, 89 WLS News (CHICAGO) Republican Congressman Bob Dold, who represents the Fox River area, was on WLS this morning to pledge support for the family of slain Fox River Police Lieutenant...

By Jennifer Keiper & Nick Gale, 89 WLS News A day after the murder of a Fox Lake police officer, three suspects remain on the loose. Investigators have only a vague description of them based on wh...