Gov. J.B. Pritzker again says downstate mental health facility could be shuttered after IG reports document mistreatment of residents – Chicago Tribune*

The situation at Choate is one of several issues the Pritzker administration has faced over its handling of state social service agencies. An auditor general’s report last year blamed Pritzker’s Public Health Department for failing to adequately respond to a COVID-19 outbreak at a state home for veterans in LaSalle that led to the deaths of 36 residents. And child-welfare advocates have repeatedly hammered the administration’s oversight of the Department of Children and Family Services, which has come under renewed fire for failing to find appropriate placements for children.