Category Archives: Chicago's Election Headquarters
New wrinkle in cop consent decree negotiations
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A sticking point has arisen in the negotiations for a federal consent decree to oversee police misconduct. The sticking point is a new requirement on cops to wri...
Jul 25, 2018
Emanuel joking about Wilson’s cash giveaway
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) At City Hall, Mayor Emanuel is wise-cracking about his challenger Willie Wilson handing out cash at church last Sunday. Willie Wilson has been handing out cash f...
Jul 25, 2018
Mayoral Candidate Willie Wilson defends cash giveaway
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Mayoral Candidate and businessman Willie Wilson appeared on WLS-AM Wednesday morning to defend his practice of handing out cash to random people who need...
Jul 25, 2018
Chicago mayoral candidate shows up at church, hands out cash
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson says he wasn’t trying to buy anyone’s vote when he handed out close to $200,000 to churchgoers. The millionaire businessman says Sund...
Jul 23, 2018
Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President R...
Jul 22, 2018
Trump slams rate increases by independent Federal Reserve
By ZEKE MILLER, JOSH BOAK and KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday cast aside concerns about the Federal Reserve’s independence, saying he was “...
Jul 19, 2018
Trump’s says Biden is his 2020 ‘dream’ Democratic opponent
[van id=”politics/2018/07/19/trump-2020-election-biden-cbs-news-sot-vpx.cnn”]Trump’s says Biden is his 2020 ‘dream’ Democratic opponent WASHINGTON (AP) - So which Democra...
Jul 19, 2018
Trump: news media wants confrontation, even war, with Russia
[van id=”politics/2018/07/18/trump-putin-cant-have-meddling-cbs-intv-tsr-vpx.cnn”] By ZEKE MILLER, KEN THOMAS and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump ac...
Jul 19, 2018
Rauner: President should blame Russians for hacking
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner says he was “deeply troubled” by President Donald Trump’s seeming support for Russia and President Vladimir Putin in public comments. The R...
Jul 18, 2018
Durbin: Trump claim a “damage control event”
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) It didn't take long for Illinois Senator Dick Durbin to provide his take on President Trump's claim he misspoke during a news conference with Russia President Vl...
Jul 17, 2018
