The 5-year-old girl was found dead in the bathtub with shallow water framing her cherubic face and open eyes. The state Department of Children and Family Services had conducted two abuse ...

, committing to overhaul DCFS' Intact Family Services program with a research-based approach and taking immediate steps to keep children safe. More from the release is posted below. "At the Governor’s ...

The mission of intact family services, which roughly 2,700 children are receiving statewide, is to offer counseling, resources and oversight to keep families together, instead of putting children ...

On May 15, Chapin Hall, the University’s independent policy research center, released a report titled “Systemic Review of Critical Incidents in Intact Family Services.” The report reviews the Illinois ...

There was only one such child death under the intact family services program during the previous five years from 2007 through 2011, according to DCFS records released to the Tribune under the Freedom ...