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Reports blister Chicago psychiatric hospital for youths

June 14, 2024 at 6:50 p.m.

When Garfield Park Hospital opened in February, the child psychiatric center promised to treat Chicago's toughest kids, including young gang members and sexually aggressive adolescents. But Illinois officials stopped sending...

Investigation found problems; reforms promised; approach uncertain

May 9, 2019 at 9:27 a.m.

Investigative reporting operates on the very un-cynical assumption that reforms may follow if suffering is revealed, and that the injustice and corruption that exist in our world often lies hidden...

Move to lower mandatory school age faces ‘uphill climb’

June 18, 2018 at 11:08 p.m.

To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to...

House Democratic leader Barbara Flynn Currie said a bill lowering Illinois' compulsory school attendance age faces "an uphill climb."

Move to lower mandatory school age faces ‘uphill climb’

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

To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to...

Investigation found problems; reforms promised; approach uncertain

November 3, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

Investigative reporting operates on the very un-cynical assumption that reforms may follow if suffering is revealed, and that the injustice and corruption that exist in our world often lies hidden...

Move to lower mandatory school age faces ‘uphill climb’

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to...

Investigation found problems; reforms promised; approach uncertain

December 24, 2018 at 12:41 a.m.

Investigative reporting operates on the very un-cynical assumption that reforms may follow if suffering is revealed, and that the injustice and corruption that exist in our world often lies hidden...

Suspect in 2000 Pilsen killing nabbed in Mexico

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

For 13 years, the family of Alma Chavez clung to dwindling hopes that law enforcement would catch up to the man accused of killing the soft-spoken nursing student. Chavez's ex-boyfriend,...

Suspect in 2000 Pilsen killing nabbed in Mexico

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

For 13 years, the family of Alma Chavez clung to dwindling hopes that law enforcement would catch up to the man accused of killing the soft-spoken nursing student. Chavez's ex-boyfriend,...

Fugitive charged with killing ex-girlfriend caught in Mexico

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

Fugitive Raul Andrade Tolentino has been captured in Mexico and faces extradition to Chicago, where he is charged with the January 7, 2000, killing of his former girlfriend, Alma Chavez,...

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