705 ILCS 405/5-740
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 705 - COURTS|705 ILCS 405/ - Juvenile Court Act of 1987.|Article V - Delinquent Minors

Sec. 5-740. 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 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 or her from the custody of his or her parents, guardian or  custodian, the  court  may:(a) place him or her in the custody of a suitable     relative or other person;(b) place him or her under the guardianship of a     probation officer;(c) commit him or her 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 or her to some licensed training     school or industrial school; or(e) commit him or her 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 or her 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 of the proper officer 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 subsection (9) of  Section 5-105 except as otherwise provided by order of court;  but no guardian  of the person may consent to adoption of the minor.  An agency whose  representative is appointed guardian of the person or legal custodian of the  minor may place him or her in any child care facility, but the 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.  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 the guardian or legal custodian  of the person a certified copy of the order of court, as proof of his or her  authority.  No other process is necessary as authority for the keeping of the  minor.(6) Legal custody or guardianship granted under this Section continues  until the court otherwise directs, but not after the minor reaches the age of  21 years except as set forth in Section 5-750.  (Source: P.A. 99-628, eff. 1-1-17.)