Bill targets zoning laws that block homes for adults with disabilities
Advocates call local zoning rules "discriminatory" against adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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‘Hidden gem’: Growing number of visitors discovering southern Illinois as travel destination
As summer approaches, southern Illinois makes a bid to pull tourists downstate to enjoy wine, nature and more.
Federal DOJ launches probe into Illinois’ treatment of people with disabilities
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Illinois' treatment of people with disabilities, focusing on state-run institutions like Choate.
“All our future money is gone”: The impossible task of providing child care in rural Illinois
Though the governor promised to make Illinois “the best state” to raise young children, child care continues to disappear.
Health care workers who cover up patient abuse face stiffer penalties under new law
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law on Friday that strengthens the range of penalties that a state watchdog ...
Senate advances bill to log abuse cover-ups in state health care registry
The Illinois Senate approved a bill preventing health care workers with substantiated abuse claims from working in state-funded mental health ...
Illinois to relocate at least half of current residents at Choate
The Illinois Department of Human Services plans to dramatically reduce the number of patients with developmental disabilities who live at ...
Report Finds ‘code of silence’ at mental health facility where staff abused and neglected patients
Several employees at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center attempted to cover up a brutal assault on a patient, according ...
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 ...
At a remote mental health facility, a culture of cruelty persists despite decades of warnings
Over a year ago, the security chief at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in southern Illinois sent an email ...
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