Waukegan · Licensed family home
Alvarez, Florinda
A family home in Waukegan, licensed for up to 8 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Mid-size home. Mid-size means licensed for 8 children, the size at least half of Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes hold. Small is 2 to 7; larger is 9 to 12.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 1 of 3 cited something
Across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits). Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- May 8, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since May 2022 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due June 7, 2025. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
May 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 8, 2025
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 505391 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 2247176065
- Address
- 1633 Frazier St
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked August 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "ALVAREZ, FLORINDA" under Provider Name and 60087 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 505391).