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Perinatal Substance Exposure

Overview The birth of children exposed to both licit and illicit substances constitutes a serious social problem. Results from a national survey conducted in 1994 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) suggest that up to 221,000 children are born each year having been exposed to illicit...

Access to Adoption Records

State laws differ in how they handle access to information in sealed adoption records. This document explains and summarizes the types of information made available under State law. Those wishing to access records are encouraged to investigate the laws in the State where the adoption was finalized....

HHS Announces Child Support Enforcement Reinvention Underway

HHS News Release HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced today that the nation's child support enforcement program has launched an initiative to promote improved performance, service quality and public satisfaction in the program. "The urgency of our task has been stressed by many," said Mary...

The Misguided Call for Orphanages

In the last six months the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) took custody of more than 4,000 children, bringing to 37,000 the number of children in foster care, up from 8,000 in 1986. One of the most appalling "solutions" to this crisis has been an offer to use Chicago...

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Illinois seeking football games in Chicago

Illini AD envisions playing home game away from Champaign every other year Illinois athletic director Mike Thomas said plans could be finalized this summer to schedule a football game in Chicago as early as 2013, competing every other season in odd-numbered years.

Illinois Hardee

Burger lovers in Loves Park, Illinois wasted no time welcoming Hardee

Illinois House of Representatives Adopts Resolution Honoring Fathers' Rights Attorney Jeffery M. Leving

CHICAGO, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 26, 2012 the Illinois House of Representatives adopted Resolution No. 995 honoring Attorney Jeffery M. Leving "for his work in safeguarding the rights ...

NU hosts Maryland, Ga. Tech visits Illinois in Challenge

Northwestern and Illinois won

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The Great Melting Pot

December 17, 2010, 8:35 am

I grew up in a small rural town in Illinois where corn and soybeans was king. There was no racial melting pot in my community. Everyone was Caucasian. The only melting occurring in our community was between those of German, French and English heritage. It was a rural Wonder Bread white...

The Assumptions of Society

March 23, 2011, 9:19 am

Society is a funny thing. Or I should say American society is a funny thing. As Americans we are a little self-centered. We are the great melting pot of cultures, but the average American only speaks one language. Perhaps if Illinois spoke a different language than Indiana, we would speak...

Meeting Adam Pertman

March 8, 2011, 2:02 pm

I had the distinct pleasure this past weekend to spend time with Adam Pertman, Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Institute, at the Chicago Area Families For Adoption Conference in Illinois. Mr. Pertman is a staunch advocate for change in adoption and his keynote address was truly...

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Placed through Ill. Department of Child & Family Services

May 8, 2012, 9:19 am

I was adopted through the State of Illinois Department of Child and Family Services. A Miss Eleen Urban was the Adoption Worker Info on me Born 10-09-1969 7:47 a.m 8lbs, 11.5 oz 19.5 inches at birth Currently I'm 5'7.5 Blonde (naturally light brown) Blue eyes Mom was Swedish/Irish...

Starting Illinois Foster Parent Support Group

May 9, 2012, 9:08 pm

At Facebook, go to [url]https://www.facebook.com/groups/IFPSG/members/[/url] to sign up. This is for Illinois Prospective and current Foster Parents who want to meet face to face to talk about their stories, have speakers to have a better understanding of foster care, and to have social...

Search Angel 1969 Freeport Ill.

May 8, 2012, 9:30 am

ISO my birthmother ... 10/09/1969 Freeport, Ill.

May 8, 2012, 9:05 am

I was born in Freeport, Ill. Oct. 1969. I was sent to foster care until my adoption was finalized. I have some information on the adoption such as Franklin d Yoder md director of public health Child Services in Rockford Ill. March 5, 1970 adoption finalized. Lyle a Rauchy md - was the attending...

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Sharing Her Grief Story:

[Thank you to Jody Moreen for openly sharing her thoughts and emotions. It will help us to better parent our children.]I am an adult adoptee, age 46, and I have traveled the journey of loss and...

An Everyday Adoption Story

I just read the letter from Lane about all the horror stories of children who were adopted, so I thought I would tell my story. It's not a horror story, or a "wine & roses" story, but...

The Search of My Biological Father

I was born June 17, 1968 in Elmhurst, Illinois. I am 6'1" and weigh 220 lbs., have dark brown hair and eyes. I have found my birth mother, Shirlene Crossman (married Shirlene Smetak), but I am...

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Illinois State Resources. Illinois government and community resources for disabilities.... The Misguided Call for Orphanages. The Illinois orphanage "solution" is a wake up call that should force society to examine the problems with child welfare in a rational way, without resorting to ...

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Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Illinois is the 25th most extensive and the 5th most populous of the 50 United States, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like ...

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