Tag: Cook County

Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith has faced nine cases of contempt of court in recent weeks ...

As rain steadily fell in Springfield Thursday morning, there was a somber feeling among the law enforcement officers and elected ...

The weekly docket for children who are wards of the state and waiting for placements recommended by the Department of ...

A Cook County judge found DCFS Director Marc Smith in contempt on Thursday.

Former Illinois Prisoner Review Board member Jeffrey Mears, who failed to receive confirmation for that post from the Illinois Senate ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday named a former Cook County judge and the chief of staff of his Republican predecessor ...

In the wake of the recent deaths of five children who were in contact with the state’s child protection agency ...

In the weeks before 8-year-old Navin Jones died, the Department of Children and Family Services had investigated his parents for ...

Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood admits he has seen a lot of horrible things in his 20 years as an ...

Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly told a state violence prevention task force this week that expressway shootings, gun trafficking, ...