Manny Ramos
Staff reporter
Manny Ramos is the transportation reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and also covers the U.S. Census Bureau. Before that he focused on housing, disinvestment and social issues facing underserved communities in Chicago.
In anticipation of a freight railroad workers’ strike that would immediately suspend travel on four of its lines, Metra said it has been forced to limit service on some of those lines Thursday evening.
Amtrak suspended routes from Chicago to Los Angeles, Chicago to Seattle and Chicago to San Francisco. It also suspended trains running from Los Angeles to San Antonio.
Chicago Office of Emergency Management reports that as of Monday evening, there were 1,912 service requests related to Sunday’s flooding. A total of seven viaducts were reported flooded, 1,578 reports of water in basements and 327 reports of water in the streets.
A more explicit acknowledgment of harm done by Britain’s colonial rule would be a start, said Pritika Chowdhry, whose grandparents lived through the partition of India at the end of British rule.
Marcos Gleffe, 39, entered his plea on Thursday which carries a maximum prison sentence of 6 months and can cost him $5,000 in fines.
The roadway on Wood Street/Ashland Avenue that stretches 3 miles between 138th and 161st streets has largely remained untouched for nearly a century — only receiving occasional resurfacing.
En todo el país, las víctimas mortales de los vehículos de motor alcanzaron el nivel más alto de los últimos 20 años durante los tres primeros meses de 2022.
Durante mucho tiempo se había considerado a Sadlowski Garza como una progresista y una fuerte aliada de Lightfoot, pero en los últimos años ambas ideas comenzaron a ser cuestionadas.
Deaths on Illinois roads jumped by about 24% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same time last year. Experts say the pandemic forces driving a nationwide increase aren’t showing signs of slowing down soon.