Column: Accusations of abuse at state facility show how government can fail the most vulnerable – Chicago Tribune*

David Greising, of the Better Government Association: "I thought of the Choate victims while watching the recent gubernatorial debate between Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state Sen. Darren Bailey. The debate was an exercise in prepackaged talking points, prolific accusations of lying by both candidates and a flat refusal to propose concrete solutions to some of the state’s most vexing problems...Problems in such an out-of-the-way place, affecting voiceless, powerless people, too rarely grab attention from the people in power.

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