
Illinois’ most vulnerable residents are paying the cost for political brinksmanship. Meanwhile, the Victor Neumann Association is figuring out what to do with 50 developmentally disabled clients who may be kicked out of their group home should state legislators be unable to plug a $9.2 million deficit in the state budget by Wednesday.
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By LORRAINE SWANSON
Editor
Recalling the 1980s when Illinois’s medical institutions dumped thousands of mentally ill wards of the state on the streets of Uptown and Edgewater to fend for themselves, members of the American Federation of County, Municipal and State Employees issued some of the most dire warnings yet of the…










