Cornelius Osborne may not seem like baby-sitting material.
Also, despite the reforms, the Tribune found that even now the
state lacks safeguards to weed out baby sitters who watch
children while living in the homes of sex offenders and other
felons deemed too dangerous for the program. Based on those
findings, the state is vowing further reforms.   Still, the
Tribune's findings are frustrating to Sen. Matt Murphy,
R-Palatine, who pushed for the reforms mandating better checks
to weed out illegal arrangements.  "You're talking about not
only the state sanctioning, but the state creating, an economic
incentive for someone with a criminal record to be in a room
with a kid," Murphy said. "That's frankly not a situation that I
find acceptable."    Program administrators have gotten national
recognition for weeding out parents who don't qualify for the
subsidies. But records show they've struggled for years to weed
out disqualified baby sitters, such as Osborne.  The honor
system   She was able to pick the bab