Palatine · Licensed family home
Ballard, Precious N
At a glance
- Small family home, licensed for up to 6 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 3 licensing inspections since April 2024.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Mar 13, 2026Nothing cited
- Jan 17, 2025Nothing cited
Apr 19, 20244 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)(g)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)(h)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)
The state cited rules at 1 of this home's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times had more: 71% of 423 had rules cited at 2 or more.
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%
- 1 of 317%This home
- 2 of 320%
- All 351%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- March 13, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since April 2024 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due May 3, 2024. 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.
Apr 2024 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · April 19, 2024
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)(g) through (23) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)(g) · 406.8(a)(19)(h) · 406.8(a)(20) · 406.8(a)(23)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 625206 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 397-3098
- Address
- 909 W Panorama Dr Apt 201, Palatine, 60067
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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 "BALLARD, PRECIOUS N" under Provider Name and 60067 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 625206).
- 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 "BALLARD, PRECIOUS N" under Provider Name and 60067 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 625206).
Small means licensed for 2 to 7 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,344 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Mid-size is 8; 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.