Hundreds of DCFS kids left in limbo in inappropriate settings, Cook County guardian finds
For 105 days—from just after Labor Day, past Halloween and Thanksgiving and, now, nearing Christmas—the girl has not been outside. She has not been to school. She has not seen her family, her friends, her dog, Max. She longs for her own bed and, perhaps, some junk food.
Instead, the 14-year-old has been living at a psychiatric unit at Rush University Medical Center, the unintended victim of an Illinois child-welfare system that has been struggling to find homes for its most vulnerable children.
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