LAKE VILLA, Ill. (WLS) -- Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigators are making daily visits to a residential facility for troubled youths where a teenager recently died.
DCFS spokeswoman Veronica Resa told the Daily Herald that the agency also brought in a team from the University of Illinois at Chicago to ensure policies and procedures are followed at the Allendale Association facility in Lake Villa outside Chicago.
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Two men working at the facility were charged last week in connection with the asphyxiation death of 16-year-old Shaquan Allen of Chicago. Police say the two men briefly struggled with the boy while responding to what authorities called a behavioral issue. An autopsy found the boy died of asphyxia due to restraint.
The teen's mother says he had been at Allendale for three years.
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