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DCFS under fire for quickly closing child abuse investigations

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigators are overwhelmed by high caseloads and are being pressured to quickly close their abuse probes, even when they have not performed basic...

Illinois child welfare head pledges reform after recent deaths of children

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

State child welfare Director George Sheldon said Tuesday he is considering a major change in the way the agency conducts abuse and neglect investigations, saying investigators could benefit from access...

State Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, is among a group of llinois lawmakers demanding answers from the Department of Children and Family Services about recent child abuse deaths.

Lawmakers want answers from state child welfare officials

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Some Illinois lawmakers are demanding answers from the Department of Children and Family Services about recent child abuse deaths and new policies that push investigators to speed up abuse and...

Robbin Carroll, founder of I Grow Chicago, hugs kids before a memorial for Manuel “Manny” Aguilar on Sept. 7, 2016. She said the death of the 4-year-old left an open wound from which the community has yet to heal.

After 3 kids die despite DCFS involvement, it urges faster probes

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

They found him wrapped in a Superman T-shirt, his burned body so tiny that first responders thought he was 9 months old. Authorities would later discover that 4-year-old Manuel Aguilar...

George Sheldon, director of DCFS, departs a news conference he attended with Gov. Bruce Rauner in Chicago on March 21, 2016.

Director of Illinois DCFS may leave amid ethics probe

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

George Sheldon boasted a can-do resume when he took the helm of Illinois' scandal-ridden child welfare agency in 2015 and proposed sweeping reforms. Two years later, the director of Illinois'...

4 new measures would tighten regulation of massive hog confinements

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

As pork producers exploit weak laws to build and expand large hog confinements across rural Illinois, neighboring farmers have complained their rights are being trampled while waste spills poison local...

Hospice CEO gets 6 1/2 years for fraud scheme

June 5, 2018 at 4:15 p.m.

Businessman Seth Gillman was sentenced Tuesday to 6 1/2 years in federal prison for masterminding a $20 million hospice care fraud scheme that exploited some of Illinois' most vulnerable residents....

4th Ward candidate under scrutiny of lawyer licensing agency

May 15, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

As Ebony Lucas runs in the special election for 4th Ward alderman, she's billing herself as a real estate lawyer "fighting for distressed homeowners and condominium associations." Public documents detailing...

Fulton County farmer Matt Howe speaks out against hog confinements during a news conference Jan. 24, 2017, at the Capitol in Springfield. The Illinois Citizens for Clean Air & Water organized a news conference during which several residents from around Illinois spoke about the adverse effects hog and dairy confinements have had on their lives.

Proposed hog confinement killed after rural neighbors speak out

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

Facing opposition from local farmers, one of the state's largest pork producers has pulled its application to build a hog confinement in downstate Fulton County, handing opponents a rare victory...

Stuart Harrison sits at his hunting lodge in Fulton County along the Spoon River. His family owns the property, which is just over a quarter-mile from the site of a proposed hog confinement operation. He is among the organizers of a group that is fighting construction of the facility.

Plan for 20,000-hog facility sparks revolt in western Illinois

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

Gravel crunching beneath their wheels, cars and pickup trucks pulled up at twilight around the one-room schoolhouse in Bernadotte Township. A powerful pork company was planning a 20,000-hog confinement near...

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