705 ILCS 405/3-28
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 705 - COURTS|705 ILCS 405/ - Juvenile Court Act of 1987.|Article III - Minors Requiring Authoritative Intervention

 (from Ch. 37, par. 803-28)Sec. 3-28. Placement; legal custody or guardianship.(1) If the court finds that the parents, guardian or legal custodian  of a minor adjudged a ward of the court are unfit or are unable, for  some reason other than financial circumstances alone, to care for,  protect, train or discipline the minor or are unwilling to do so, and that  appropriate services aimed at family preservation and family reunification  have been unsuccessful in rectifying the conditions which have led to such  a finding of unfitness or inability to care for, protect, train or  discipline the minor, and that it is in the best interest of the minor to  take him from the custody of his parents, guardian or custodian, the court may:(a) place him in the custody of a suitable relative     or other person;(b) place him under the guardianship of a probation     officer;(c) commit him to an agency for care or placement,     except an institution under the authority of the Department of Juvenile Justice or of the Department of Children and Family Services;(d) commit him to some licensed training school or     industrial school; or(e) commit him to any appropriate institution having     among its purposes the care of delinquent children, including a child protective facility maintained by a Child Protection District serving the county from which commitment is made, but not including any institution under the authority of the Department of Juvenile Justice or of the Department of Children and Family Services.(2) When making such placement, the court, wherever possible, shall  select a person holding the same religious belief as that of the minor  or a private agency controlled by persons of like religious faith of the  minor and shall require the Department of Children and Family Services to  otherwise comply with Section 7 of the  Children and Family Services Act in placing the child. In addition, whenever  alternative plans for placement are  available, the court shall ascertain and consider, to the extent  appropriate in the particular case, the views and preferences of the minor.(3) When a minor is placed with a suitable relative or other person,  the court shall appoint him the legal custodian or guardian of the  person of the minor. When a minor is committed to any agency, the court  shall appoint the proper officer or representative thereof as legal  custodian or guardian of the person of the minor. Legal custodians and  guardians of the person of the minor have the respective rights and  duties set forth in paragraph (9) of Section 1-3 except as otherwise  provided by order of the court; but no guardian of the person may consent  to adoption of the minor unless that authority is conferred upon him in  accordance with Section 3-30. An agency whose representative is appointed  guardian of the person or legal custodian of the minor may place him in any  child care facility, but such facility must be licensed under the Child  Care Act of 1969 or have been approved by the Department of Children and  Family Services as meeting the standards established for such licensing. No  agency may place such minor in a child care facility unless such placement  is in compliance with the rules and regulations for placement under this  Section promulgated by the Department of Children and Family Services  under Section 5 of "An Act creating the Department of Children and Family  Services, codifying its powers and duties, and repealing certain Acts and  Sections herein named". Like authority and restrictions shall be conferred  by the court upon any probation officer who has been appointed guardian of  the person of a minor.(4) No placement by any probation officer or agency whose representative  is appointed guardian of the person or legal custodian of a minor may be  made in any out of State child care facility unless it complies with the  Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.(5) The clerk of the court shall issue to such legal custodian or  guardian of the person a certified copy of the order of the court, as proof  of his authority. No other process is necessary as authority for the  keeping of the minor.(6) Custody or guardianship granted hereunder continues until the  court otherwise directs, but not after the minor reaches the age of 19  years except as set forth in Section 3-32.  (Source: P.A. 98-83, eff. 7-15-13.)