Department of Children and Family Services

An 18-year-old resident of a state-run group home in Ravenswood ran away with a 13-year-old boy who lived at the same facility and raped him by a nearby park last month, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.

Additional charges were filed against a couple from Guatemala that allegedly used two undocumented girls as slaves in suburban Aurora.

The Illinois agency responsible for investigating child abuse has updated its system for accepting online reports of neglect and abuse. Leaders of the Department of Children and Family Services said the changes include clearer instructions and fewer necessary clicks, aiming to reduce the amount of time required to complete abuse reports. “The earlier suspected abuse or neglect is reported, the…

A 9-month-old infant died Saturday after being abused in Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side. Josue Juarez was rushed to Holy Cross Hospital about 6:15 p.m. after he was found unresponsive in the 3000 block of West 60th Street, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Hospital staff told officers that Juarez had signs of “extensive trauma...

The family of Marlen Ochoa gathered to remember the young mother Saturday on what would have been her 20th birthday.

On what would have been her 20th birthday, Marlen Ochoa’s memory is being honored by family and friends with a balloon release and ceremony in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

The founder and CEO of Safe Haven Baby Boxes says an infant has been safely left at a new baby box in northwestern Indiana. Monica Kelsey says a baby girl was left Friday in the baby box at Hammond’s Franciscan Health Hospital. The padded, climate-controlled box there opened Aug. 7.

A judge has refused to impose a gag order in a case involving two Chicago women charged in the deaths of a mother and the child cut from her womb. Cook County Circuit Judge Peggy Chiampas on Tuesday said she would not restrict the public’s “right of access.”

The mother and daughter charged with killing a pregnant Chicago teen and cutting her unborn baby from her womb pleaded not guilty Monday after they were indicted the death of the young mother’s infant.

The mother and daughter charged with killing a pregnant Chicago teen and cutting her unborn baby from her womb have now been indicted in the death of the young mother’s infant.

Attorneys representing two Chicago women charged in the death of a mother and a child cut from her womb are asking for a gag order. The Cook County Public Defender’s Office made the request during a status hearing Thursday. Judge Peggy Chiampis says she will rule after hearing arguments from both sides.

The hospital that treated the infant child who was ripped from his mother’s womb after her grisly slaying in Chicago says bills sent to the infant’s father were an “error.”

The mother-daughter duo accused of killing a pregnant Chicago teen before cutting her unborn baby from her womb and claiming it as their own are now facing a new murder charge- for the infant’s death.

A child was mistakenly taken from her daycare by a Department of Children and Family Services employee, who was supposed to pick up a different baby for a supervised parental visit. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

A child was mistakenly taken from her day care by a Department of Children and Family Services contract worker, who was supposed to pick up a different baby for a supervised visit.

The mother-daughter duo accused of killing a pregnant Chicago teen before cutting her unborn baby from her womb and claiming it as their own pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

A report from the Illinois Department of Public Health indicates a doctor questioned if the woman who brought 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa’s baby into Advocate Christ Medical Center was in fact the child’s mother two weeks after the teen’s grisly murder.

Advocate Christ Medical Center, the facility facing questions following the birth of a child who police say was cut from the womb of his mother, has been cleared in an investigation by the Illinois Department of Public Health.