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The Illinois Appellate Court Friday dismissed a court order preventing the state`s child-welfare agency from overcrowding its three Cook County shelters for abused and neglected children.
Cook County Public Guardian Patrick Murphy promised to seek a permanent order to bar overcrowding at the shelters, run by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
Murphy won the first order in June after DCFS acknowledged that it had placed as many as 141 children in the three shelters, which accommodate a total of 100 children.
The Appellate Court returned the case to a Juvenile Court judge, saying conditions had improved. But a DCFS spokesman said the shelters were full again Friday.
