Round Lk Bch · Licensed family home

Appel, Claudia S

What these mean, and where they come from

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 1 cited something

Chicago-area family homes: the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits. One visit is too few to read as a pattern.

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
January 16, 2026
On file
1 visit, January 2026 — it cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due February 16, 2026. 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.

Jan 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · January 16, 2026

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(i) · Violation corrected

Records and Reports

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 638544 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

How the comparison is built

Routine visits: across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits).

Details

8477401283

Address
1265 N East End Ave
License
license issued (il)

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Sources and dates

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All checked August 2026.

State record

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Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "APPEL, CLAUDIA S" under Provider Name and 60073 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 638544).