STATE’S TOP ASYLUM NO SANCTUARY FOR KIDS
The orderly, antiseptic atmosphere of the Henry Horner Children's Center, one of the nation's largest state-run youth asylums, is just a veneer. The history of the Northwest Side facility is...
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BOY SHUNTED BACK AND FORTH IN STATE’S LABYRINTH
On a chilly afternoon last March, 10-year-old Timothy was taken by ambulance to one of America's largest state-run asylums for youth, the Henry Horner Children's Center on Chicago's Northwest Side....
TROUBLED KID OFTEN AN UNDISCOVERED CRISIS
By the time the Chicago Board of Education approved a residential special education school for Daniel Raney, they couldn't locate him. The emotionally disturbed 16-year-old had run away from home...
LITTLE HELP FOR TROUBLED KIDS
The boy sits alone in a bare, linoleum-tiled holding room in back of Cook County Juvenile Court. His right hand is shackled to a plastic chair. His left floats through...
LITTLE HELP FOR TROUBLED KIDS
The boy sits alone in a bare, linoleum-tiled holding room in back of Cook County Juvenile Court. His right hand is shackled to a plastic chair. His left floats through...
SPECIAL ED CHIEF LATEST CHICAGO SCHOOL OFFICIAL TO RESIGN
Another key official has joined the exodus of those resigning from Chicago`s beleaguered public school system. But the announcement Monday that special education chief Thomas Hehir will leave his $90,000-a-year...
ARSON CHARGES FILED IN HUGE 1980 BLAZE
Former Chicago banker James E. Wells was charged Wednesday in a multimillion-dollar arson scheme stemming from a 1980 warehouse blaze that authorities said was the city`s worst since the Great...
LANDLORD INDICTED IN TAX SCHEME
A man once dubbed ''Chicago`s worst landlord'' was indicted Thursday on federal racketeering and mail-fraud charges. Louis Wolf, 68, a convicted arsonist whose real estate holdings stretch from the West...
CONFESSION REJECTED AFTER TORTURE ALLEGED
A Cook County judge on Thursday barred prosecutors from using the confession of a 13-year-old boy who said Chicago police shocked him with an electrical device while interrogating him about...
CITY ATTORNEYS RELEASE FLOOD OF DOCUMENTS
One Wednesday afternoon in April, as his co-workers struggled to repair the tunnel rupture that was flooding the city`s Loop, veteran city engineer Frank Ociepka was called before the mayor`s...