Duaa Eldeib

State child welfare chief Bobbie Gregg on Thursday faced sharp questions from former juvenile wards in the wake of a Tribune investigation that revealed hundreds of reports that youth were...

Teams of state child welfare officials have begun making unannounced inspections at residential treatment facilities that serve juvenile wards as authorities accelerate their response to a Tribune investigation revealing assaults,...

The central Illinois truck stop was chilly and dark on the November morning last year when Mary Bohanan was arrested for prostitution. Handcuffed in a Bloomington police squad car, the...

Public officials on Friday reacted angrily to an ongoing Tribune investigation that found juvenile state wards were assaulted and sexually abused at government-funded residential treatment centers throughout Illinois. Gov.-elect Bruce...

The youths living at Indian Oaks Academy knew staff members were forbidden to follow them into the hulking abandoned building next door. With its crumbling walls, shattered windows and collapsing...

The 19-year-old lay awake at night, dreading the moment when his roommate would call to him from the bunk below. There, in the dark, the roommate would utter his name,...

In residential treatment centers across Illinois, children are assaulted, sexually abused and running away by the thousands — yet state officials fail to act on reports of harm and continue...