Tag: mental health

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker called patient abuses at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in rural Anna “awful” and ...

Over a year ago, the security chief at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in southern Illinois sent an email ...

A 24-year-old with developmental disabilities was brutally beaten by his caretakers inside a state-run facility with a long history of ...

Police departments in four communities in Illinois will be part of a co-responder pilot program that aims to send social ...

Flanked by members of law enforcement advocacy groups, about a dozen Democrats from both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly ...

Minimum wage workers in Illinois will see a boost in their hourly pay to $12 per hour starting Jan. 1, ...

A bill to phase out the use of isolated timeouts and prone physical restraint in public schools will soon be ...

The Illinois Senate passed a bill Wednesday which would create a new housing program for individuals living with mental illness ...

Rooted in disinvestment and growing amid economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois is facing a statewide mental health crisis ...

One of the first lessons state Rep. Monica Bristow learned about her job was to keep answers short, and be ...