020320 DCFS Grace Brown (MA)

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Grace Brown poses for a portrait outside of Northshore Medical Group on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 in Gurnee. Brown says that finding medical coverage through IlliniCare for her foster children has proven to be very difficult because many area doctors are not accepting new patients and she cannot take her foster children to the same doctors which she takes her biological children to.

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Grace Brown poses for a portrait outside of Northshore Medical Group on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 in Gurnee. Brown says that finding medical coverage through IlliniCare for her foster children has proven to be very difficult because many area doctors are not accepting new patients and she cannot take her foster children to the same doctors which she takes her biological children to.

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Grace Brown shows a letter she received from DCFS regarding the medical insurance her foster children receive on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 in Gurnee. Brown says that finding medical coverage through IlliniCare for her foster children has proven to be very difficult because many area doctors are not accepting new patients and she cannot take her foster children to the same doctors which she takes her biological children to.

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Grace Brown poses for a portrait outside of Northshore Medical Group on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020 in Gurnee. Brown says that finding medical coverage through IlliniCare for her foster children has proven to be very difficult because many area doctors are not accepting new patients and she cannot take her foster children to the same doctors which she takes her biological children to.