<\/a>Joe Collins<\/p><\/div>\n
A memorial service for Joe Collins,<\/strong> the veteran Chicago radio traffic reporter, will be held at 6 p.m. September 7 at Queen of Martyrs Chicago, 10233 Central Park Avenue in Evergreen Park. It will be followed by a celebration of his life. Collins, 58, who was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 2006, died of congestive heart failure August 1. He was best known for his long run as traffic reporter on CBS Radio all-news WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: If you can\u2019t trust an anchorman, who can you trust? On Tuesday, I asked Jeff Herndon about his employment plans after he signed off that night as 5 and 9 p.m. weekday news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32. \u201cAs for the future, I\u2019m not any closer to a decision,\u201d he... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15351,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions\/15351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}