Pritzker calls for changes after “awful” reports of abuse at developmental center
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker called patient abuses at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in rural Anna “awful” and...
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker called patient abuses at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in rural Anna “awful” and...
Over a year ago, the security chief at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in southern Illinois sent an email...
A 24-year-old with developmental disabilities was brutally beaten by his caretakers inside a state-run facility with a long history of...
I’Kera Hill, 3, died of malnutrition and dehydration at a Carbondale hospital on June 22, 2022, according to the child...
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Ray E. Tate, the man who pleaded guilty in March to killing Wayne County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Riley, has asked...
A state audit released Thursday found nearly $2 billion in federal money intended to help unemployed Illinoisans during the pandemic...
Capitol News Illinois discovered the death certificates in the Illinois State Archives earlier this year. The St. Clair County coroner's...
Amaria Osby’s friends and family were to gather Tuesday, not to celebrate her eighth birthday, but to attend her funeral.
On Thursday afternoon, a Cook County judge found Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith in contempt...