Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Truck carrying thousands of gallons of fuel catches fire on I-90
A truck that had rolled over caught fire early Sunday near Rosemont. | Network Video Productions (Rosemont) A semi-truck carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel burst into flames early Sunday on Interstate 90,...
May 31, 2015
Cold and windy today, warm-up starts tomorrow
Posted by Weather Channel Meteorologist Geoff Maurer Posted 5/31/2015 4:11am Temperatures will run 15-20 degrees below average today with clouds and gusty winds from the north/northeast. Today | Mostl...
May 31, 2015
Blackhawks win 5 -3: Stanley Cup finals are next (Updated with schedule)
(Anaheim, CA) Jonathan Toews scored two goals in the opening minutes, and the Chicago Blackhawks skate into the Stanley Cup Finals with a 5-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night. T...
May 30, 2015
Police: 2 killed, 15 wounded in Chicago weekend gun violence
Two men and a woman were shot in the 6900 block of South Cornell about 12:20 a.m. Saturday. | NVP News (Chicago) Two people were killed and at least 15 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago ...
May 30, 2015
Police: Altercation leads to fatal shooting in Lake View
(Chicago) A 25-year-old man was shot and killed early Saturday during an altercation with another man in the Lake View neighborhood on the North Side. The shooting happened about 2 a.m. in the 900 blo...
May 30, 2015
Strong cold front to produce windy and wet conditions today
From Weather Channel Meteorologist Geoff Maurer Posted at 4:17am A strong cold front will produce windy and wet conditions today…. **Lakeshore Flood Advisory from 1:00 pm today to 4:00 a....
May 30, 2015
Durbin “Stunned” on Hastert Indictment
By Nick Gale, WLS News (Chicago) U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says he was stunned when he heard that Hastert had been indicted. Listen to Nick Gale’s story: https://www.wlsam.com/wp-content/up...
May 29, 2015
WATCH: Surveillance video released of suspect in grocery store slaying
Authorities on Friday released these images of a suspect in a fatal shooting on Dec. 23, 2014, at Eberhart Food Store at 457 E. 79th St. | Chicago Police (Chicago) Chicago Police are asking for the pu...
May 29, 2015
World’s most prolific online drug dealer, ‘SuperTrips,’ gets 10 years
(CHICAGO) A federal judge in Chicago sentenced the world's most prolific online drug dealer to 10 years in prison Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. Cornelis Jan "SuperTrips" Slomp, 23, was...
May 29, 2015
UPDATE: Post: Dog stolen from West Loop apartment returned to PAWS Chicago
(CHICAGO) A dog that was stolen from a West Loop apartment ten days ago was returned to a shelter on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post by its owner. A photo of Barnaby was posted to a Facebook p...
May 28, 2015
