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SPRINGFIELD – Senate Republican Leader John Curran (R-Downers Grove) and Senate Republican Caucus Whip Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) filed an official resolution calling for an independent audit by the Illinois Auditor General into serious accusations of violence against children under the state’s care at Aunt Martha’s Integrated Care Center in Chicago, as well as what appears to…
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Marc Smith is one of 3 state agency leaders to announce end-of-year departure plans Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith will resign effective Dec. 31, he told colleagues in an all-staff town hall meeting Wednesday morning. For years, critics had called on Smith to resign or be fired, amid legislative hearings,…
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PLAINVILLE, Ill. — The Adams County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Plainville man on four counts of possession of child pornography. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services alerted the Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 29 regarding a case of sexual exploitation of a minor. A subsequent investigation led the arrest of Joshua D. Cress,…
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