Children Detained
Though Illinois now has less than half as many foster children as in 1997, an increasing number have been held in juvenile detention centers and juvenile prisons.
Notes: Includes county and state facilities. Figures are for fiscal years running from July 1 through June 30. Figures for 2002 do not include the last month of the fiscal year.
Source: Illinois Department of Children and Family Services; analyzed by The Chicago Reporter.
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- Tips For Renters Caught Up In Foreclosure
- Black Areas At Highest Risk
- Rental Runaround
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- Renters Squeezed Out
- Suburbs Slow To Get On Board
- Methodology (Suburbs Slow To Get On Board)
- Unity Through Dialogue
- Working Hard Or Hardly Working
- Editor's Note: July-August 2008
- Reporter Impact: July-August 2008
- Letter to the Editor: July-August 2008
- Not All Arrests Lead To Deportation
- A Bumpy Ride
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- Divine Inspiration
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