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With children under watch of the Department of Children and Family Services continuing to die and contempt of court citations piling up, how long can Gov. JB Pritzker (pictured, right) continue to stick with director Marc Smith (pictured, left)?
“Let me remind you,” the governor told reporters Saturday in a post-session news conference, “that there have been over a dozen leaders of DCFS over the prior years to my becoming governor. It’s important for us to bring stability to DCFS with a good leader who is bringing change. It is hard to make changes in a bureaucracy.”
Pritzker summed it up: you can’t just fire the director every time there’s a problem.