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More than 300 pairs of children’s shoes on display represent kids with prior DCFS contact who died
Greater than 100 youngsters died over 1-year interval regardless of contact with DCFS, new report says
The show was organized by a gaggle that got here collectively following the dying of AJ Freund, who was killed by his mother and father roughly three years in the past.
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Illinois Home Republican chief Jim Durkin referred to as the show “very emotional,” saying it represented a horrible failure by the state.
The group that organized the show hopes it’ll have a higher influence merely listening to the variety of youngsters who’ve died.
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