An open house and ribbon cutting for the Department of Child and Family Services' new training simulation lab in Normal was ...

In Illinois, DCFS contracts with community-based foster agencies in order to house and provide services for children in state ...

In Illinois, DCFS contracts with community-based foster agencies in order to house and provide services for children in state care. The department reported that the state had about 20,000 foster ...

DCFS said in a statement that other reports that the agency prepares satisfy legal requirements but declined to answer additional questions from Illinois Answers or to comment on the call for ...

SPRINGFIELD — Insurance companies are reducing the scope of coverage for some community foster agencies in Illinois, leading to higher costs, diminished coverage and fewer options for agencies ...

Parents who say they’ve been falsely accused, unjustly investigated, or ignored when reporting actual abuse took to the ...

Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton picked up an endorsement from Sen. Tammy Duckworth in the primary to succeed the retiring Sen. Dick Durbin. Stratton launched her campaign last week after Durbin ...

Four students between the ages of 7 and 18 were killed after a vehicle drove into an after-school camp in Chatham, Illinois, on April 28, authorities said. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon said ...

“The reckoning,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told a room full of revved up Democrats in New Hampshire on Sunday night, “is here.” Appearing in the first presidential primary state ahead of ...

Illinois football had one player picked in the 2025 NFL Draft, the fifth consecutive season the Fighting Illini had at least one name called on draft weekend. Pat Bryant was selected in the third ...