So, in the entire state of Illinois, population roughly 12 million, they found a total of 90 convicted sexual offenders (with unspecified actual offence) living in the same building as a day-care facility (with unspecified size of the buildings, it could be 500 apt complexes) and ONE case of a person receiving payments from DHS (not sure what relevance that has).
I may be missing something here, but this does not sound like the widespread disaster that the tone of the article implies. I can understand the sentiment that convicted pedophiles should not be allowed to live in the apartment next to a day-care center (and on pure principle, they shouldn’t), but I don’t think that will affect the number of assaults on children significantly. If a deviant is set to go after children, living across town won’t stop him (or her).
(with unspecified size of the buildings, it could be 500 apt complexes)
No.
Apartment complexes do not let renters run businesses with lots of traffic out of them. That brings increased maintenance, and increased liability.
This is what it sounds like - ordinary houses.
As for how widespread this may be, there is no telling. It isn’t like they could go in and check most daycares - there just isn’t the manpower to begin to do that. So these numbers are what they found in whatever area they did check.