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While Lawmakers grilled Illinois Department of Children and Family Services officials and representatives of a Medicaid managed care organization charged with providing 17,100 foster children with health care by Nov. 1, a task force charged with overseeing that very responsibility sat empty.
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Staff at all levels of the Illinois’ beleaguered Department of Children and Family Services is not responsive to calls, several stakeholders have told The Daily Line, pointing to major communications issues as one reason for the agency’s troubles in recent years.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith. [Submitted]
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SEP 16, 2019
A simmering feud between two Northwest Side Democratic party leaders has boiled over into an all-out war.
A simmering feud between State Sen. Robert Martwick, top, and 41st Ward Democratic Commiteeperson Tim Heneghan has boiled over into an all-out war. [Submitted]
Tim Heneghan, who is the 41st Ward Democratic committeeperson, tweeted his support on Thursday for Chicago Police Sgt. Danny O’Toole, who is mounting a primary challenge against newly-minted State Sen. Robert Martwick (D-Chicago).
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SEP 12, 2019
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Nineteen children who had recently been on the Department of Children and Family Services’ radar have died in just the first 11 weeks of the 2020 fiscal year, according to the agency’s inspector general.
Those deaths came after a particularly tumultuous year for the department, in which 124 children, whose family had some sort of involvement with DCFS within the previous year died during the 2019 fiscal year.
