Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Termination of Parental Rights
Court terminated Respondent-mother's parental rights to her three minor children. Respondent failed to make reasonable progress in nine months after adjudication of neglect, given that as of date of fitness hearing the children could not be returned to her in the near future, as she is in prison until 2015 and thereafter would have to take parenting classes and obtain suitable housing. Caseworker testified that she had never heard children express desire to return to mother's care, but had heard them express desire to be adopted. Court's finding that terminating parental rights was in children's best interest was not against manifest weight of evidence. (HARRIS and HOLDER WHITE, concurring.)