Dahleen Glanton

Katie Alwood's 9-year-old son faces arson and murder charges after an April mobile home fire killed five.

Column: A 9-year-old boy should not be charged with first-degree murder, no matter what he did

October 23, 2019 at 10:35 a.m.

I can't stop thinking about that little boy who is charged with murder. When I close my eyes, I imagine him in a courtroom sitting in chair, as described in...

U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2013. Cummings died last week.

Column: Rep. Elijah Cummings’ rise to power explains why African Americans are aligned with Democrats

October 21, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

Many Republicans just can't seem to grasp why African Americans are so committed to the Democratic Party. If anyone really wants to understand this seemingly shatterproof bond, they need look...

McHenry County Board member Carlos Acosta before the start of the board's meeting on Oct. 15, 2019, in Woodstock. Acosta, who also works for DCFS, was a welfare investigator who had made contact with Andrew "AJ" Freund 's family.

Column: Maybe it’s time to hold Illinois child welfare workers criminally liable when children under their supervision are killed

October 17, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

We have known from the beginning that the child welfare system failed 5-year-old AJ Freund. Social workers should have removed this child from his home long before his parents allegedly...

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Column: A 9-year-old boy should not be charged with first-degree murder, no matter what he did

Column: Rep. Elijah Cummings’ rise to power explains why African Americans are aligned with Democrats

Column: Maybe it’s time to hold Illinois child welfare workers criminally liable when children under their supervision are killed

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Column: Want to know what Donald Trump is really up to? Read his campaign emails.

Column: Chicago teachers are gearing up to walk out of the classroom. But is a strike really necessary?

Column: A black man forgave the white cop who killed his brother. And some African Americans don’t like it.

Column: Hurry back to the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders. America needs your positive vision of the future.

Column: ‘(There) ain’t no age. Period’: The chilling words of an alleged child killer