About 60% of family members caring for children under the auspices of DCFS could gain access to additional financial help through provisions in the bill, according to the Illinois ACLU ...

An attorney for the Illinois Department of Children and Family ... that Riley was working at the bank even more hours than her DCFS position during some weeks. Investigators said the claim that ...

DCFS never produced a required public report after 8-year-old Navin Jones was found dead at his family's home in Peoria in 2022. This story was first published by Illinois Answers Project ...