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Manny comes to Illinois Answers Project after four years at the Chicago Sun-Times where he most recently covered transportation. During his time at the Sun-Times, he covered a broad range of topics, including communities and the U.S. Census Bureau. Manny joined the Sun-Times as a Report for America corps member with a mission to strengthen the paper’s coverage of issues facing the city’s South and West Sides. Manny is a Chicago native who has a background in service and solution journalism - which was showcased during his time at City Bureau, a nonprofit civic media organization. He was part of teams that reported on dwindling community-policing initiatives, public health issues related to building demolitions and how incarcerated people struggle to seek post-conviction relief. Manny also has written for the Chicago Reader, WBEZ Chicago, The Groundtruth Project, and South Side Weekly. He graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism.

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

Explained: Chicago’s Migrant Crisis

by Manny Ramos May 5, 2023May 8, 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

Posted inCriminal Justice & Public Safety

Chicago Police’s Foot Pursuit Policy Explained

by Manny Ramos March 9, 2023March 14, 2023

A police officer seemingly adhered to the Chicago Police Department’s foot pursuit policy — still cost him his life

Posted inInvestigations

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Claims That Illinois and Chicago Cut Police Spending Are False

by Manny Ramos February 23, 2023February 24, 2023

The Republican governor visited Elmhurst in what was pegged as a pro-police rally where he compared crime rates of Chicago to the whole state of Florida

Posted inGovernment Finance & Accountability

A Revived Push for a Labor Peace Agreement With City Nonprofits

by Manny Ramos February 9, 2023February 8, 2023

Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez (33rd) told the Illinois Answers Project she was disheartened by nonprofit leaders who showed their opposition for an ordinance that would bar employers from interfering in union organizing efforts.

Posted inSolutions

Would Transit Ambassadors Improve the CTA?

by Manny Ramos February 7, 2023February 22, 2023

Transit ambassadors are being introduced in transit systems from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Cleveland and Philadelphia but evidence of its effectiveness remains limited

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