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A planned transition for nearly 36,000 foster children and former youth in care from traditional fee-for-service Medicaid to a Medicaid managed care system has been delayed until February after advocates said the change could put thousands of the state’s most vulnerable children at risk.
Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith addresses reporters. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
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The Illinois Human Rights Commission on Wednesday voted in favor of enforcing an earlier ruling allowing a trans woman employee to use the women’s bathroom at the Aurora Hobby Lobby where she’s worked for nearly two decades while her case is on appeal.
“I’m good at what I do,” Sommerville said. “I have a huge clientele of customers that come to me for my specific talents of framing and everything else. I shouldn’t have to leave,” said Meggan Sommerville. [Submitted]
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Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday he is “monitoring” efforts to transfer 17,100 foster children and 18,800 former youth in care from traditional Medicaid to Medicaid managed care, but didn’t commit to delaying the change.
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With six weeks left until 17,100 children in Illinois’ foster care system and 18,800 former foster kids are slated to move into Medicaid managed care, stakeholders were finally invited to three statutorily mandated meetings last week — on two days’ notice.
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Though overall opioid deaths in Illinois dropped in 2018 for the first time in five years, new data from the Illinois Department of Public Health reveal that efforts to stem the crisis of opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths has not been racially equitable.
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The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh a very modern interpretation of one of Illinois’ oldest laws when the justices consider a case in which a man who lost $109 on daily fantasy sports website FanDuel argues he is entitled to get his money back.
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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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A firm that emits the same chemical thought to cause cancer at the center of the fight over Sterigenics International Inc.’s Willowbrook plant has gotten $19.8 million in state tax credits since 2008, according to an analysis by The Daily Line.
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