Mackenzi Felmlee died after she was found struggling to breathe, bruised and dehydrated at the bottom of the basement stairs in a Fairview Heights foster home. Four years later, the Illinois ...

Mackenzi Felmlee fell through the safety net of doctors, judges, lawyers, social workers, teachers, child welfare ...

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing ...

Good morning, Chicago. City officials, residents and researchers gathered at Columbus Park in the Austin neighborhood Tuesday night to remember the deadly heat wave 30 years ago — and to plan how to ...

A new batch of complaints filed Tuesday include 107 new cases of alleged sexual abuse at Illinois Youth Centers and the Cook ...

Another 107 people filed complaints Tuesday against the state for allegedly allowing rampant sexual abuse in Illinois ...

Attorneys on Wednesday announced that 107 additional names have been added to a class-action lawsuit alleging abuse in juvenile detention.