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Manny Ramos

Manny Ramos is a former solutions and accountability reporter at the Illinois Answers Project.

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Without stable housing for five years, David, seen here at a tent encampment on the Northwest Side earlier this year, says Chicago needs to do more to help people like him. (Credit: Victor Hilitski/For Illinois Answers Project)
Posted inGovernment Finance & Accountability

City Has Spent Only 15% of $52M in Federal Money Dedicated for Homeless Programs

by Rachel Hinton and Manny Ramos August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

Two years after receiving the COVID-era funding, Chicago has been slow off the mark with some of its programs to help people experiencing homelessness.

Gov. J.B Pritzker, seen here in a file photo, has come under sharp criticism for placing limits on state health insurance programs for undocumented immigrants that his administration initially created.
Posted inSolutions

Explained: Why Did the State Pause a Health Insurance Program for Undocumented Immigrants?

by Manny Ramos June 26, 2023June 26, 2023

Illinois was the first state to create the Medicaid-like program, but in only three years it has become one of its “most expensive programs.”

The Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center, 2020 W. Harrison St., is home to one of the largest HIV/AIDS clinics in the country and is a leader in vital medical research of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. (Credit: Manny Ramos/Illinois Answers Project)
Posted inGovernment Finance & Accountability

Were New HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Paused over Patient Safety or Is It a Cook County Money Grab?

by Manny Ramos June 12, 2023June 12, 2023

Cook County Health is spending millions of dollars creating its own medical research department while it continues a yearlong investigation into the nonprofit managing its clinical trials — a move drawing criticism from research staff members and advocates.

A migrant family from Venezuela arrives with their belongings at a Chicago police station where they will stay with other migrant families (Credit: Scott Olson /Getty Images)
Posted inInvestigations

Alderperson Says Migrants Are Causing TB Outbreaks at Police Stations, But It’s Not True

by Manny Ramos May 30, 2023May 31, 2023

Housing migrants temporarily at Chicago police stations is no one’s first choice, but a rapidly growing number of asylum seekers arriving in the city from border communities in Texas have […]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

Explained: Chicago’s Migrant Crisis

by Manny Ramos May 5, 2023June 9, 2023

Chicago has been staring down a manufactured migrant crisis for months that has entered a boiling point — leaving vulnerable asylum seekers in despair and struggling to find safe shelter. 

Kathleen Campbell, 71, stands on her property where a private company had threatened to seize portions of it through eminent domain and is now an outspoken critic of carbon dioxide pipelines crossing through Central Illinois.
Posted inInvestigations

Naked land grab or a boon to the environment? Proposed ‘carbon-capture’ pipelines across central Illinois trouble land owners

by Manny Ramos April 28, 2023April 28, 2023

Carbon capture and storage is a process to clean dirty industry and reduce emissions, but environmental groups are ringing the alarm that Illinois doesn’t have the proper guardrails in place.

To put more electric vehicles on the road, Illinois will need more charging stations, and it currently lags behind several other states. (Credit: Getty file photo)
Posted inGovernment Finance & Accountability

The Feds Are Pushing for Millions More Electric Vehicles on the Road, But Is Illinois Ready?

by Manny Ramos April 21, 2023May 2, 2023

Gov. J. B. Pritzker’s administration says it welcomes the goal of increasing the number of electric vehicles by 2032 but is still examining the implications of a new proposed EPA standard.

Wind Turbines in body of water.
Posted inSolutions

Could Lake Michigan be home to the largest lake wind farm in the country?

by Manny Ramos April 13, 2023April 18, 2023

A bill passed in the state’s House would establish an offshore wind farm of more than 30 turbines. Is it worth it?

CPD officers gather as the body of an Illinois state trooper who was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head in a suicide along I94 south of downtown arrives at the Cook County Medical Examiner's office on October 01, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois
Posted inCriminal Justice & Public Safety

Police Officer Suicides Tripled in Two Years As CPD ‘Stalled’ on Progress With Consent Decree

by Manny Ramos April 4, 2023April 5, 2023

Chicago Police Department efforts to bolster wellness program under the consent decree were faltered because of a lack of data and risk losing compliance in some instances

Posted inInvestigations

What’s the Cost of a Labor Peace Agreement?

by Manny Ramos March 17, 2023March 24, 2023

Human services providers claim the new ordinance would have a financial burden, but the agreement has no associated costs

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