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Waukegan · Licensed family home

Alvarez, Rita

At a glance

  • Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.

What to know

License: birth to 12 years (state).

The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.

What the state has found

The state cited no rules at any of its 3 licensing inspections since May 2023.

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Licensing inspections

  • Apr 16, 2026Nothing cited
  • Apr 22, 2024Nothing cited
  • May 10, 2023Nothing cited

The state cited no rules at any of this home's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times had at least one: 88% of 423.

How all 423 Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times compare

Of the 423 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None12%This home
  • 1 of 317%
  • 2 of 320%
  • All 351%
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
April 16, 2026
On file
3 visits since May 2023 — all of them cited nothing
Fixed?
Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
Most serious
Nothing was cited at any visit on file.

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.

Apr 2026 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2024 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
May 2023 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

Details

Phone
(224) 430-7542
Address
2340 W Greenwood Ave, Waukegan, 60087

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "ALVAREZ, RITA" under Provider Name and 60087 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 498668).
  • Ages on the license — Checked November 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "ALVAREZ, RITA" under Provider Name and 60087 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 498668).

Mid-size means licensed for 8 children, the size at least half of Chicago-area’s 3,344 licensed family homes hold. Small is 2 to 7; larger is 9 to 12.

The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.

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