Affiliate: Planned Parenthood of Illinois
Locations: 5. Covered here: 5.
Chicago Wicker Park closed in 2024, and Englewood closed in March 2025.
Patients who feel a need to file a complaint:
Illinois Department of Public Health: Health Care Regulation – File a Complaint
For a pdf report on the state that can be posted online, sent by email attachment, or printed in whole or with specific pages:
Illinois State Report Online PDF
Entire City
Reaves
We list this under the entire city because documents aren’t consistent as to whether events occurred at Loop or Near North.
Legal Documents:
Death Reaves Settlement ($2 million)
Death Reaves Deposition of Doctor
Excerpt from Autopsy:
OPINION: The cause of death of this 24-year-old, Black female . . . is due to hemorrhage resulting from cervical dilation and evacuation due to an intrauterine pregnancy.
Report from Channel 2 CBS Chicago:
Family Seeks Answers After Woman’s Death Following Abortion
July 21, 2012
Excerpt:
Tonya Reaves, 24, died late Friday night from a hemorrhage, with a cervical dilation and evacuation, as well as an intrauterine pregnancy as contributing causes, according to the medical examiner’s office.
She died after she’d had an abortion at Planned Parenthood at 18 S. Michigan Av, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Her death was ruled an accident, but the Reaves family wants to know more, especially Tonya’s twin sister Toni.
“We were born the same day. She was my other half,” Toni said.
Toni Reaves said the family is trying to get through this.
“It happened so fast. She was just fine one day and then the next day she was gone. We’re just trying to figure out what happened. what happened,” she said.
Toni Reaves said her sister was engaged to be married and had one son – Alvin – who just had his first birthday.
Mitchell
Article in the Chicago Tribune:
Man charged in sexual assault of family member of friend
The girl was 8 years old when the attacks started . . .
The man allegedly assaulted the friend’s family member about twice a week for more than three years, ending when the victim reached puberty, prosecutors said . . .
The victim told a Planned Parenthood counselor of the assaults at some point in 2006 or 2007, Gonzales said. Prosecutors and court record information did not indicate whether the counselor reported the incidents to authorities.
Kolosso
Court Document:
IL Chicago Kolosso Labor Complaint
Excerpt:
10. On or about May 17, 2023, Kolosso experienced a serious workplace injury that caused significant damage to her back and other areas, including, but not limited to, strains, tears, hip dysplasia, and other serious medical issues . . .
14. Kolosso’s disability is not transient and will require continued medical attention, surgeries, and treatment in order to ameliorate her ongoing conditions . . .
16. Planned Parenthood failed to grant Kolosso her requested accommodations or effective, alternative accommodations in order to permit Kolosso to return to the workplace full time . . .
25. Following the discussion, and Defendant’s unreasonable offer to return to work with a demotion and significant pay cut, Defendant changed Kolosso’s status from “Workman’s Comp” to “Unpaid Leave” in their human resources system.
26. Defendant subjected Kolosso to harassment throughout Kolosso’s efforts to return to work, and subjected her to retaliation in response to Kolosso engaging in protected activity.
Doe
Court Document:
IL Chicago Doe Complaint 09.21.25
Extract:
37. Because of Plaintiff’s race, national origin, sex (sexual orientation), and age, Plaintiff was subjected to disparate treatment and discrimination, including being undercompensated in comparison to her less experienced comparators . . .
42. Defendant discriminated against Plaintiff because of her race by refusing to accommodate her desire of a safe and free non-discriminatory hiring process and for discriminating against her for the same and would not have done so had Plaintiff not been Black and everything else having been the same.
Article in Crain’s Chicago Business
Medicaid Probes Planned Parenthood of Illinois
by Andrew L. Wang, July 7, 2012
Excerpt:
The Illinois Medicaid inspector general is investigating the billing practices of the medical
director of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Crain’s has learned. Dr. Caroline Hoke was reimbursed more than $3 million by Medicaid during the state’s 2009 fiscal year, making her the program’s second-highest paid doctor at the time, but the payments fell to zero by 2011 . . . .
The state Department of Healthcare and Family Services has withheld payments to Dr. Hoke until “billing issues” are resolved, a DHFS spokesman confirmed.
Article in Crain’s Chicago Business
Planned Parenthood settles with State on Medicaid Payments
by Andrew L. Wang, September 5, 2012
Excerpt:
Planned Parenthood of Illinois has agreed to pay the state $367,000 to settle a dispute over alleged overbilling of the Medicaid program by the non-profit.
Dr. Caroline Hoke, an obstetrician-gynecologist and the organization’s medical director since
2007, had been under threat of termination from the state Medicaid program since 2010, when
the inspector general of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services sought to recover
allegedly improper payments . . .
In the Medicaid case, the agency alleged that Dr. Hoke overbilled the state an estimated
$430,380.02, mostly for services that were not documented . . .
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Letter from HHS/OCR responding to complaint
Excerpt:
On October 9, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Region III received your complaint alleging Planned Parenthood . . . has violated the Federal Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information . . . Specifically, you allege that, an employee of Planned Parenthood impermissibly disclosed your protected health information (PHI) to a third party. You stated that, on September 25, 2013, [redacted] left a comment under the public posts of your Facebook page pertaining to a procedure you had done at Planned Parenthood.
Chicago
Austin
From the Office of Emergency Management and Communications
Chicago Police Department report, January 1, 2016 through February 27, 2017
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Loop
Harkless
Employee Harkless Court Complaint
Employee Harkless Planned Parenthood’s Response
Headings for Allegations of Complaint:
B. [Planned Parenthood of Illinois] PPIL’s Failure to Notify Plaintiff of Her Rights Under the [Family and Medical Leave Act] After Notification of Her Serious Health Conditions
C. Violations of the Confidentiality of Plaintiff’s Medical Records by Defendants PPIL and Tao
D. Defendant Tao’s Inappropriate and Discriminatory Comments and Behavior Toward Plaintiff and Other PPIL Employees
E. PPIL Had Notice of Defendant Tao’s Discriminatory Behavior and Comments
F. Plaintiff’s Termination and PPIL’s Changing Reasons Given to Support It
G. Defendant PPIL’s Intimidation of a Witness Who Did Not Support Its Defense for Terminating Plaintiff
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Near North Elizabeth Cohn Morris Health Center
Castro
Court Document:
IL Chicago Near North Castro 2019 Malpractice Complaint
(The ambulance call recording for this date is in the list of ambulance call videos below – May 24, 2018).
Excerpt:
- On May 24, 2018, [Plaintiff] was present at Planned Parenthood, 1200 North LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois, for the implantation of intrauterine contraception (“IUC”) . . .
- . . . before the IUC procedure, a Planned Parenthood healthcare professional told [Plaintiff] that she may experience side-effects from the procedure, including, but not limited to, dizziness and cramping.
- . . . shortly after the insertion of the IUC, [Plaintiff] experienced dizziness and informed the Planned Parenthood healthcare professional present at the time of the dizziness.
- . . . following her complaints of dizziness [Plaintiff] was left alone and unmonitored.
- . . . while unmonitored, [Plaintiff] lost consciousness and fell off the table to the ground, striking her head and neck area, and resulting in a broken neck.
November 1, 2016
The paper report for this one is included in the pdf-linked documents below.
October 4, 2017
November 16, 2017
May 24, 2018
This is the ambulance call associated with the Castro malpractice suit, documents above,
July 5, 2018
July 27, 2018
September 5, 2018
September 11, 2018
October 6, 2018
February 23, 2019
March 21, 2019
October 30, 2019
November 19, 2019
April 22, 2020
July 10, 2020
July 15, 2021
Note to help understand the content: a uterine perforation is potentially an infertility and life-threatening condition.
January 20, 2023
The paper report for this one is included in the pdf-linked documents below.
January 25, 2023
The paper report for this one is included in the pdf-linked documents below.
February 19, 2026
Note to help understand the content: a uterine perforation is potentially an infertility and life-threatening condition.
From the Office of Emergency Management and Communications
Chicago Police Department report, January 1, 2016 through February 27, 2017
EMS November 1, 2016 (audio dispatch above)
EMS January 20, 2023 (audio dispatch above)
EMS January 25, 2023 (audio dispatch above)
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- The undersigned swears and affirms . . . that he has good cause to believe that:
Sometime during the period of time between the 8th day of February, 2008, and the 3rd day of May, 2009 . . . Defendant did knowingly commit the crime(s) of . . . Child Seduction . . . a Class D felony (Intercourse and/or Other Sexual Conduct) . . .
3. Victim was seduced by her former New Haven Middle School Principal . . . Defendant had sex with Victim in various hotels in Fort Wayne, his mother’s residence . . . his residence . . . and the New Haven Middle School . . . Defendant impregnated Victim in 2008 . . . On September 2, 2008, Defendant drove Victim to a Planned Parenthood clinic located at 1200 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois where Victim obtained an abortion . . .
Victim provided numerous items of corroborating evidence . . . the medical records from Planned Parenthood with her name and Defendant’s name written on them. The telephone number listed on the form with Defendant’s name belonged to his residence . . .
Document:
Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights:
IL Chicago Near North 2014 HHS-OCR Letter
Highlights:
Patient said a Planned Parenthood employee had posted a comment on her Facebook page about a procedure she had at the Near North Planned Parenthood.
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Roseland
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