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Shine Bougher 6, and sister Glori, 1, play at their family home in Will County. Their parents have filed a lawsuit after declining to give Glori a vitamin K shot after her birth.

Doctors took a newborn baby from her parents after they refused a vitamin K shot for her. Now the couple is suing the hospital and DCFS.

September 26, 2019 at 5:12 p.m.

In the moments after Angela Bougher gave birth last winter, she and her husband, a suburban Chicago pastor, were eager to hold their new baby girl. But as Bougher was...

Former Chicago college student who was reported missing this month has been found safe

September 19, 2019 at 4:43 p.m.

Authorities have located a former University of Chicago student who was reported missing earlier this month. Chicago police announced Thursday afternoon that Charles Thomas, 23, has been found safe. Kathy...

Marc Smith, acting director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, at DCFS headquarters in Springfield on July 2, 2019.

DCFS was supposed to review every priest sex abuse referral from the Chicago Archdiocese. That didn’t happen, so now the agency is opening 24 cases it overlooked.

September 18, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

Acting on concerns that more than 1,000 reports of possible sexual abuse by Catholic clergy may not have been properly reviewed by DCFS, the child welfare agency has opened 24...

Clarence E. George Jr., with attorney Jeff Anderson at left, talks about a suit he's filed against the Chicago Archdiocese, claiming he was molested by the late Rev. John Smyth while George lived at Maryville Academy in Des Plaines as a youth.

Financial toll of priest sex abuse on Chicago Archdiocese? $220 million and climbing

September 17, 2019 at 5:24 p.m.

Underscoring how the Chicago Archdiocese continues to pay millions of dollars for clergy sex abuse of children that occurred decades ago, a prominent attorney announced Tuesday that he has newly...

Former Chicago college student who was shot by campus police last year has gone missing, family says

September 11, 2019 at 6:50 a.m.

Chicago police are searching for a 23-year-old man who was last seen Thursday on the Northwest Side, his family said. His mother identified the man, Charles Thomas, as the former...

DSFS General Counsel Amanda Wolfman speaks with DCFS Director Marc Smith as he faces questions from lawmakers during a hearing the Bilandic Building on Sept. 10, 2019.

‘We have got to see progress’: Lawmakers push DCFS for plans after troubled child welfare agency gets first major funding boost in years

September 10, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Lawmakers on Tuesday pressed officials with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services about how the agency plans to spend an additional $128 million in state and federal funding...

A longtime St. Viator coach was escorted off campus in June. Now he is charged with disorderly conduct over alleged texts to students.

August 29, 2019 at 6:56 a.m.

A day before Joseph Majkowski was set to retire, the guidance counselor and acclaimed former coach was escorted off of the St. Viator High School campus and banned from returning....

Early sunlight illuminate the ten crosses with the names of the the 10 children killed by fire last year in Little Village, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Abel Uribe/baiduhai

Hace un año 10 niños murieron en uno de los incendios más mortales de Chicago, la causa aún se desconoce

August 26, 2019 at 12:16 p.m.

Diez cruces de madera, cada una pintada de blanco y con el nombre de un niño, están clavadas en el suelo de un pequeño jardín en el Southwest Side. Flores...

Derek Starr, a forensic electrical engineer, assesses the fire damage on Sept. 7, 2018, in a gutted Little Village apartment where 10 children died.

10 children were killed a year ago in one of Chicago’s deadliest fires. The cause is still unknown, and officials have been mostly silent.

August 23, 2019 at 5:44 p.m.

Ten wooden crosses, each painted white and bearing the name of a young child, are staked into the ground of a small garden on the Southwest Side. Fresh flowers and...

Sujeto bajo arresto por supuestas amenazas a una clínica de abortos de Chicago

August 21, 2019 at 11:25 a.m.

Un hombre de Chicago acusado de amenazar con agredir una clínica de abortos cerca de su casa en repetidas publicaciones en línea fue arrestado sin derecho a fianza el martes...

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