Officials said the child is listed in good condition at Lurie Children’s Hospital after being found in the alley furniture.
The Safe Haven Law went into effect 20 years ago.
Since then more than 4,000 children whose parents couldn’t care for them were given a special status: Safe to go home with a forever family.
Being a Safe Haven baby makes eight-year-old Riley feel awesome and strong. With much charm and confidence, Riley says, “When I first knew I was
Many people are unaware that if a parent of a newborn child in Illinois feels unable or unwilling to keep their baby, he or she
Hope’s Garden was started in the spring of 2017 by the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office. Since then, the garden has produced healthy and very needed
CHICAGO, IL – A campaign is being launched by Illinois officials and advocates to promote the Safe Haven Law that allows babies to be turned
“Baby Sunday” was born 10 years ago in the emergency room of West Suburban Medical Center. Her birth mother immediately handed her over to hospital
Trinity Haack and Zoe Wituk were reunited yesterday at a Wheaton Park. These two toddlers share a story. Both were relinquished at safe havens in
Jenny Paul knows that one day her 2-year-old daughter, Megan, will begin asking questions about her birth mother that Jenny won’t have answers to.
On Friday, a 21-year-old former University of Illinois college student was sentenced to ten years in prison for the suffocation murder of her newborn son,
In April of 1992, a body of a full-term newborn girl was found on the bank of the Mississippi River by a man who was
15 years ago, Illinois passed the “Safe Haven Law” which allows the legal surrender of newborns to staff at safe haven locations with no questions asked. Since
While DuPage County officials continue to work to solve the case of a dead newborn, they paused Thursday to attend a memorial service of her short
When Christie Haack heard of the death of Baby Hope, the newborn girl who was found dead, in a backpack in suburban Wheaton, she sobbed.
In a candid interview with Chicago Tribune’s Irv Leavitt, Dawn Geras, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Save Abandoned Babies Foundation answers some fun questions for
If you are considering abandoning your newborn, please bring them to any one of the many baby safe haven locations across the state, child advocates
