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I agree with all the above. We also went thru LCFS instead of DCFS. We did pay up front for our home study because we were pretty sure we would adopt from out of state and ended up doing that, but the other state picked up our homestudy cost once the adoption was finalized (reimbursed us) and they also paid our IL lawyer.
This option seemed best to us because it broadened our search for a child to the entire US, and we could still also consider IL kids too. We ended up adopting from Iowa (my husband has family ties there, but this was not a relative adopt). The ties to the state was a factor in our being selected for our kids, BTW, as they wanted to get our kids away from the area they lived in, but wanted someone who understood where they were from, and wanted them to have opportunities to visit.
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DH and I Adopted 4 sibs in 2002, they are now:
DD1 / 20yrs 
DD2 / 19 yrs
DS / 17 yrs 
DD3 / 15 yrs
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?!!
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.
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