DCFS Investigating Death Of 4-Month-Old Girl On West Side
Officers responding at 8:43 a.m. to a home in the 2700 block of West Wilcox discovered the girl was not breathing, according to Chicago Police.
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Officers responding at 8:43 a.m. to a home in the 2700 block of West Wilcox discovered the girl was not breathing, according to Chicago Police.
Lorne Garrett, 51, was found unresponsive in the administrative building at 8:30 a.m., according to the Cook County sheriff's and medical examiner's offices.
Judge Vincent Gaughan hasn't decided whether Jason Van Dyke's defense team will see the files when he receives them. He said he will first analyze them himself to see if they are relevant for the officer's pending trial.
The death of Laquan McDonald, a black Chicago teenager who was a state ward for most of his life before he we was shot 16 times by a white police officer, has spurred Illinois' child welfare agency to look differently and with more focus at the cases of troubled youths, the director told The Associated Press.
Child sex trafficking has become an epidemic in Illinois. Now, the Department of Children and Family Services wants your help to stamp out the practice.
State officials have backed down after a two-year fight with a single mother accused of neglect for allowing her three boys to play alone at a playground right outside her window.
A Missouri woman has claimed she is fighting a David-and-Goliath battle with the state of Illinois over her son, and she fears even when he turns 18 in two weeks, Illinois will still insist on custody.
How young is too young to leave a child alone, in the state of Illinois? The law says, under 14, for any unreasonable amount of time.
State child welfare officials are investigating after an infant was left in a hot car for about two hours Tuesday in southwest suburban Joliet.
A parent tells CBS 2 her child was beaten and bruised at a Chicago daycare center, and now the state's child-welfare agency is investigating. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
Andres Gamez, 33, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault of a family member under 18 and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a victim under 5 years old, according to the McHenry County sheriff's office.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services says the Algonquin mother accused of shooting her flat-screen TV will get to keep her three children.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois is asking a federal judge to order the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to start enacting court-ordered reforms, reports WBBM's Terry Keshner.
Riverside police and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services were investigating an incident in which a boy shot his sister with a BB gun.
The head of the agency that oversees children who are wards of the state told state lawmakers Wednesday that a revolving door at the top is partly to blame for abuses that have plagued the department for decades.
It is a case of a mother's wishes for her very ill son and a doctor's concern and fear. On Monday, a judge intervened on the heartbreaking story that stretches from Kansas City to Chicago.
After determining that her viciously abused and malnourished 3-year-old second cousin was dead, a West Ridge woman allegedly went out, bought some marijuana and then smoked it with the child's parents near the toddler's battered corpse.
Republican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner on Tuesday blamed Gov. Pat Quinn for the deaths of children whose families have had contact with the Department of Children and Family Services, an attack the Quinn campaign called a "despicable" smear attempt.
State child welfare officials say it's too hard to tell whether there's been an increase in reports of child abuse since news broke about Vikings running back Adrian Peterson taking a stick to his four-year old son.
The deaths of two four-month-old girls are being investigated by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
State child welfare officials are investigating the parents of a northwest suburban boy who died Saturday morning.
The latest recipients for the four-year college scholarships were selected from 300 applicants across the state.
Criminal charges could come later today in the death of a 3-year-old Northwest Side girl.
Although numbers are vague, the crime of human trafficking presents a real challenge to law enforcement and welfare agencies, who have teamed up to try to raise awareness of troubled children who end up being manipulated or forced into prostitution.
The parents of a 7-month-old baby girl who was found dead earlier this year have been charged after authorities determined the child starved to death in northwest suburban Barrington.
