CHICAGO -- A child has been found on Chicago's Northwest Side after being reported missing more than seven years ago, the U.S. Marshals Service Northern District of Illinois said on Friday. The ...

Migrants living in city-run shelters have made up a relatively small number of Illinois Department of Child and Family Services investigations in Chicago. At the peak of migrant shelter operations, ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- For years, we have been investigating problems inside the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services – the agency that cares for the state's most at-risk kids. We have now ...

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CHICAGO — Gov. Pritzker announced Wednesday the next director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). He is appointing Heidi Mueller, who currently serves as the director of ...

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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Thursday was named in a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of children in state care who have been held in juvenile ...