Illinois agency tries to determine how it failed foster child

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

CHICAGO -- Officials of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services were scrambling Tuesday to find out why its child welfare system that had been much praised in recent years broke down in the case of a 3-year-old boy found chained by the neck to a bed.

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