Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Social Justice ReporterJuanpablo covers substandard housing and police-community relations. He’s been a bilingual facilitator at the StoryCorps office in Chicago. As a civic reporting fellow at City Bureau, a non-profit news organization that focuses on Chicago’s South Side, Ramirez-Franco produced print and audio stories about the Pilsen neighborhood. Before that, he was a production intern at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the rural America editorial intern at In These Times magazine. Ramirez-Franco grew up in northern Illinois. He is a graduate of Knox College.
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The state is hoping that a renaming of the Asian Carp will be enough to motivate consumers to take a chance on the fish -
Winnebago county residents and friends have over 11,000 acres of natural area to enjoy throughout the summer.
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La Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos revocó oficialmente Roe v. Wade el viernes. La sentencia declara que ya no existe el derecho constitucional al aborto. Los miembros del Congreso de Illinois están fuertemente divididos en líneas partidarias en respuesta a la decisión. En el norte de Illinois, la gente se reunió en varios lugares para dar a conocer sus sentimientos sobre la resolución.
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People rallied for and against the overturning of Roe v. Wade at courthouses in Rockford and Sycamore Friday afternoon.
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Guidance is for ComEd to prioritize critical infrastructure like hospitals and nursing homes.
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Three peregrine falcons hatched atop the old Rockford Register Start building in early May.
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A data center in DeKalb, Illinois, is the testing ground for a new sustainable concrete. Is this greenwashing or can new mixtures contribute to reducing the construction industry's carbon footprint?
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An unlikely source could be the answer to predicting a COVID-19 Surge
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The rusty patched bumble bee is endangered and losing some of its last habitat, an Illinois prairie. A multi-million dollar airport expansion is stalled because of a last-minutes sighting of the bees.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service have 135 days to make a determination on the Rockford airport expansion's impact on an endangered bee.
