Just off the lobby at the gated North Lawndale campus of the social service agency UCAN sits a room where women, mainly mothers, convene for hours sharing stories about their lives and children, their successes and frustrations. This is a safe space, one where the violence that touched these women’s lives isn’t the focal point. Instead, some young moms try to juggle feeding a teething baby .
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Instagram users in Illinois could qualify for a payout after a new class-action lawsuit was filed; a Chicago police officer was reported missing by his family last week; and a mother is speaking out after her father allegedly beat her 5-year-old daughter to death.
According to DuPage County prosecutors, 19-year-old Devan Flax jumped over the Walgreens pharmacy counter, broke into a cabinet and stole nearly 8,000 tablets of Xanax, Hydrocodone, and Acetaminophen and Codeine.