Mackenzi Felmlee died after she was found struggling to breathe, bruised and dehydrated at the bottom of the basement stairs in a Fairview Heights foster home. Four years later, the Illinois ...

Mackenzi Felmlee fell through the safety net of doctors, judges, lawyers, social workers, teachers, child welfare ...

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing ...

A new batch of complaints filed Tuesday include 107 new cases of alleged sexual abuse at Illinois Youth Centers and the Cook ...

Survivors of child sex abuse at juvenile detention facilities in Illinois are hoping for justice. Hundreds of people have alleged they were abused as children while incarcerated at detention ...

Officials with the Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Justice, the state agencies named in several complaints, have declined comment as have Cook County officials.

Over two hundred people who passed through the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center as adolescents say the facility's guards, teachers and other staff members took sexual advantage of them.