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A Cook County sheriff's unit works to find a missing ward of the state in 2014. Sheriff Tom Dart said he hopes to expand the team with funding assistance from the Department of Children & Family Services.

Illinois child welfare agency left millions of federal dollars unclaimed

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

Illinois child welfare officials forfeited tens of millions of federal dollars in recent years by failing to process basic paperwork, state authorities told the Tribune this week. After a monthslong...

A VietNow charity volunteer pushes a rack of boxes filled with hundreds of sandwiches bound for homeless people in Chicago on July 19, 2015, in Lombard.

Donations to Illinois veterans charity mostly go to pay telemarketers

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

To address the profound and unmet needs of veterans, Americans last year donated $1.4 million to a Rockford charity called VietNow National Headquarters. But most of the money — about...

Telemarketer Safety Publications Inc., housed in the 5900 block of North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, pocketed the vast majority of donations it collected for charities that offered minimal assistance to veterans, police, firefighters and others, records show.

Telemarketers keep dollars raised for charity

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

In a faded brown brick building on the Far Northwest Side, minimum-wage workers reading from scripts asked ordinary Americans to help heal war-torn veterans, equip cops with bulletproof vests and...

A 2014 Tribune investigation detailed sexual assaults, violence and prostitution at Universal Health Services' Rock River Academy in Rockford, as well as problems at other Universal facilities.

Lawmakers urge faster action to protect youths at residential treatment sites

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

U.S. Reps. Danny Davis of Illinois and Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts on Tuesday urged federal health authorities to speed up their investigation of the nation's largest behavioral health provider,...

Instructor Ramone Giles, right, questions an answer from Shemar Ruth, center, regarding things not to do when filling out a job application as they play a "Family Feud"-style game during youth job training at Phalanx Family Services in Chicago on June 9, 2015. The South Side nonprofit received a Get IN grant for about $260,000 to provide summer jobs and programs, but it was rejected for further funding.

Millions pledged to fight Chicago violence have yet to be disbursed

August 18, 2019 at 7:51 p.m.

As Chicago's youth violence made national headlines, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and business leaders in 2013 launched what they called a game-changing initiative to quell the bloodshed. With prominent executives at...

Carlos Castillo, shown in 2012 in Mexico, appeared in Cook County court for the first time Friday, April 17, 2015, on allegations he was the driver who struck and killed Rachel Gilliam, a 25-year-old DePaul University student, in 2009. Castillo was extradited from Mexico after fleeing there following the crash.

Chicago fugitive in 2009 fatal hit-run extradited from Mexico, faces trial

May 10, 2019 at 11:17 p.m.

Sitting in a relative's sparse brick home in Central Mexico three years ago, Carlos Castillo talked about the night a fatal hit-and-run accident killed a promising DePaul University student and...

At Indian Oaks Academy, Meisha Singleton was attacked by peers, repeatedly bullied and taunted, government records show.

Fixes to residential treatment on the way in Illinois, but budget woes loom

August 18, 2019 at 7:08 p.m.

State officials and child advocates have begun the difficult, deliberate work of revamping Illinois' child welfare system following reports late last year that young state wards were assaulted, raped and...

Hartgrove Hospital in the 5000 block of West Roosevelt Road in Chicago is under particular scrutiny as the Justice Department examines allegations of fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billing by its corporate parent, Universal Health Services.

West Side’s Hartgrove Hospital focus of widening Justice Department probe

August 18, 2019 at 7:07 p.m.

The Justice Department's criminal probe into Universal Health Services has entered a new and more serious phase, focusing on potential wrongdoing by the corporation as a whole and not just...

Former Rock River Academy worker Angelia Babcock: "A lot of staff made stuff up. If you would pull some of the notes, you could look up one kid, and it would be the same intervention day after day for that kid."

Workers at Rockford girls center: Therapy included cartoons, faked records

August 18, 2019 at 6:47 p.m.

At Rock River Academy, hours that were billed as "group therapy" for girls with troubled histories instead were spent watching movies in a common area, with no discussion afterward, according...

George Sheldon, who has been picked to take over the troubled Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, says he trusts Gov. Bruce Rauner will give him "flexibility to make decisions and make the changes I think are important."

Incoming DCFS chief vows transparency

August 18, 2019 at 6:45 p.m.

The incoming director of the Department of Children and Family Services says he got one clear message during his single meeting with his new boss, Gov. Bruce Rauner: "He knows...

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