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CHICAGO – The walls inside and outside Superintendent Leonard Dixon’s office at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center are lined with plaques from his decades-long career in juvenile justice and photos of the 69-year-old posing with smiling children and dignitaries, including former President Joe Biden and the late Congressman John Lewis.

But a new Injustice Watch investigation raises questions about how often Dixon himself is actually present at the facility he has run for the past 10 years — and whether he lives in Cook County.

Nine current and former employees of the detent

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