Chicago · Licensed family home
Berry, Natasha S
A bilingual family home in Chicago, licensed for up to 12 children. Ms. Natasha has been there since 2008. The state cited something at 8 of 8 routine visits (Chicago-area family homes: about 4 in 5).
Larger home. Larger means licensed for 9 to 12 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 2 to 7; mid-size is 8.
How they teach
Bilingual
“we teach and model English, Spanish and American Sign Language everyday to the children”In their words. berryspatch.net, August 2026
One of 19 Chicago-area providers that describe a bilingual approach, out of 129 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
Ratio not published
Ms. Natasha since 2008 and Natasha since 2017.
Of 5,346 Chicago-area providers, 27 publish how long a named staff member has been there; the longest tenure at each of those has a median of sixteen years.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 8 of 8 cited something
Across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits).
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
- August 25, 2026
- On file
- 8 visits since January 2018 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 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.
Aug 2026 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · August 25, 2026
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(b)(10) · Violation corrected
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · Violation corrected
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120 · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2026 Monitoring visit 9 findings
Monitoring visit · February 19, 2026
Health, Medical Care and Safety
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) through (4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · 408.70(a)(2) · 408.70(a)(3) · 408.70(a)(4)
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(e) through (n)(2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(e) · 408.30(n)(2)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(k) · Violation corrected
Program
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.85(f) · Violation corrected
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(c) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2025 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · January 30, 2025
Health, Medical Care and Safety
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · 408.70(a)(2) · 408.70(a)(3)
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(b)(10) through (k) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(b)(10) · 408.30(k)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2023 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · January 6, 2023
Health, Medical Care and Safety
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) through (4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · 408.70(a)(2) · 408.70(a)(3) · 408.70(a)(4)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2020 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · December 14, 2020
Health, Medical Care and Safety
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) through (4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · 408.70(a)(4)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2019 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · December 19, 2019
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.20(k) · Violation corrected
General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(f) · Violation corrected
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(h) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2018 Monitoring visit 11 findings
Monitoring visit · December 27, 2018
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(2) through (b)(11) · Violation corrected · Violation corrected on site
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(2) · 408.30(a)(16) · 408.30(b)(11)
General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(e) through (i) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(e) · 408.35(g) · 408.35(i)
Records and Reports
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(c) through (o) · Violation corrected on site · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(c) · 408.120(e) · 408.120(o)
Application for License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.10(b)(1)(c) · Violation corrected
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.20(k) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2018 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · January 25, 2018
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.20(i) · Violation corrected
General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(j) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553546 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
A day here
- Meals
- Breakfast, morning snack, lunch, and afternoon snack served daily on a fixed schedule (the brand’s policy for all its schools)
- Outdoors
- Scheduled outside play blocks each day, with indoor exercise as an alternative (the brand’s policy for all its schools)
- Sleep
- Scheduled nap time in the early afternoon; newborns/infants nap on their own schedule (the brand’s policy for all its schools)
- Hours
- 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, 5 days a week
Details
- Phone
- 7735438212
- Website
- berryspatch.net
- Address
- 1750 N Natoma Ave
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
- Ages
- Newborns and Infants, Toddlers, Preschool
- Established
- 2017
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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.
How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 · berryspatch.net
Who cares for your child
- Staff — berryspatch.net
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors, Sleep — Checked August 2026 · berryspatch.net
- Hours — Checked August 2026 · berryspatch.net
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BERRY, NATASHA S" under Provider Name and 60707 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 553546).
- Website — Checked August 2026 · berryspatch.net
- Ages — Checked August 2026 · berryspatch.net
- Established — Checked August 2026 · berryspatch.net