An Illinois Department of Children and Family ... Deborah Riley was working as a senior regional counsel in Urbana at the time of the investigation, a position that included representing the ...

the Illinois Answers Project sought these records from two killings in central Illinois in which DCFS had investigated the victims’ families before the deaths. In one case, 8-year-old Navin ...

An attorney for the Illinois Department of Children and Family ... that Riley was working at the bank even more hours than her DCFS position during some weeks. Investigators said the claim that ...

An attorney for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services was fired after a report from the Office of Executive ...

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), alongside Prevent Child Abuse Illinois, Hospital Sisters Health System, the Poshard Foundation f ...

The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of ...

DCFS never produced a required public report after 8-year-old Navin Jones was found dead at his family's home in Peoria in 2022. This story was first published by Illinois Answers Project ...

Illinois Child Abuse Prevention Month launched in Wood River, emphasizing the role of caring adults in prevention.

52 of the 118 Illinois House district boundaries violate being constitutionally compact. The 2021 legislative redistricting map, used in elections in 2022 and last November, has resulted in ...

LOOK AT THE 70S. GOT THE 80S FOR YOU. STILL MAYBE A LITTLE CHILLY SOMETIMES AT SOME POINTS I Louisiana State Troopers arrested a DCFS employee in New Orleans after a traffic stop. Twenty-seven ...

To report suspected child abuse or neglect, visit the DCFS Online Reporting System at https://childabuse.illinois.gov or call the DCFS Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline at 1-800-252-2873.