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DCFS steps up monitoring after teen’s death at residential center

June 14, 2024 at 6:47 p.m.

State child welfare officials have stepped up monitoring and stopped placing youths at a Lake Villa residential facility as they try to piece together the circumstances that led to the...

DCFS Director George Sheldon speaks at a news conference with Gov. Bruce Rauner on March 21, 2016.

Troubled DCFS outlines major overhaul, but budget crisis could hurt plans

June 14, 2024 at 6:47 p.m.

In an ambitious effort to repair Illinois' beleaguered child welfare system, state officials have laid out a wide-ranging reform plan that includes extensive worker retraining, expanded access to mental health...

Chicago businessman pleads guilty in state grant fraud scheme

May 22, 2019 at 9:36 p.m.

A Chicago businessman at the center of an investigation into millions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent state contracts has pleaded guilty to money laundering and mail fraud. George E. Smith's...

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-1st, celebrates as he watches election results with his staff and supporters at his campaign headquarters in Chicago on March 15, 2016.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush tops former ally Brookins; Kirshnamoorthi wins Democratic slot to replace Duckworth

May 15, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, despite a sputtering start to his campaign for a 13th term, easily beat back a challenge from Ald. Howard Brookins Jr. and declared victory Tuesday night...

Democrats seeking Duckworth’s seat clash on who can represent middle class

May 15, 2019 at 3:27 p.m.

The three Democrats running for the chance to succeed U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth in Congress differ slightly on immigration, health care and a minimum-wage increase, and have clashed on who...

Justin Doyle speaks at the Illinois River Correctional Center in Canton. His friend Travis Castle, 14, was killed in 2008 when someone staying in the house they were burglarizing shot him. Doyle, then 15, was charged with his friend's murder, even though he didn't pull the trigger and wasn't armed.

Controversial law charges people with murder for death at others’ hand

June 11, 2018 at 6:11 a.m.

Before they entered the darkened house, Justin Doyle and his friends checked to make sure it was empty. They knocked on the front door and cased the exterior. Then they...

Deborah Bullwinkle, Villa Park village president, and Schaumburg businessman Raja Krishnamoorthi speak Jan. 26, 2016, with the baiduhai Editorial Board. The two Democrats are vying to succeed U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth in representing the 8th Congressional District.

Democrats seeking to succeed Rep. Duckworth tout resumes as key

May 25, 2019 at 1:25 p.m.

A pair of Democrats trying to succeed U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth tried to establish themselves as champions of the middle class and touted their resumes as why they think they'll...

Parents of District 211 students speak and hold signs during a board meeting Dec. 2, 2015, in the case of a transgender student seeking locker room access.

Transgender student who fought District 211 gets locker room access

May 10, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

The transgender student whose fight to use the girls' locker room at her suburban high school sparked a national debate on equity vs. privacy was granted access Friday. School officials...

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...

An officer with the Lake County Major Crime Task Force collects evidence at a fatal police-involved shooting Jan. 6, 2016, in Zion.

Man killed by Zion cops was ‘likable guy,’ had history of mental illness, his dad says

June 9, 2020 at 5:47 a.m.

The father of a 38-year-old man killed in a police-involved shooting in Zion said his son's death came down to a pair of "judgment calls" by his son and police,...

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