Mackenzi Felmlee fell through the safety net of doctors, judges, lawyers, social workers, teachers, child welfare ...

Mackenzi Felmlee died after she was found struggling to breathe, bruised and dehydrated at the bottom of the basement stairs in a Fairview Heights foster home. Four years later, the Illinois ...

DCFS confirmed that Mackenzi was placed in Williams’ foster home in Fairview Heights in April 2020 under the supervision of ...

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing ...

Good morning, Chicago. City officials, residents and researchers gathered at Columbus Park in the Austin neighborhood Tuesday night to remember the deadly heat wave 30 years ago — and to plan how to ...

The parents of an emaciated 7-year-old boy who weighed 28 pounds when they took him to an emergency room Tuesday face charges ...

A new batch of complaints filed Tuesday include 107 new cases of alleged sexual abuse at Illinois Youth Centers and the Cook ...