The Joliet Treatment Center, designed to treat people with serious mental illness, repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires despite two deaths, an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Sun-Times found.
There have been more than 70 fires at the facility in the last three years, including a dozen cases in which men incarcerated there set themselves on fire. More on the story.
* Brian Sapp reports on the reaction to the state decision to close programs at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in southern Illinois.
* This Week in Illinois History recalls when then-Sen. Barack Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention…