Chicago · Licensed family home
Brena, Nicole
At a glance
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 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 its 1 licensing inspection, in August 2024.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Aug 16, 20244 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(g)
Records and Reports
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(f)
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(b)
The state cited rules at this home's 1 inspection. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected once had the same: 73% of 304.
How all 304 Chicago-area family homes inspected once compare
Of the 304 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected once, whether that inspection cited a rule:
- No27%
- Yes73%This home
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- August 16, 2024
- On file
- 1 visit, August 2024 — it cited findings
- Fixed?
- Correction was due September 16, 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.
Aug 2024 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · August 16, 2024
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23) through (g) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23) · 406.8(g)
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(b) · Violation corrected on site
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(f) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 607831 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 953-3547
- Address
- 4726 N Kilbourn Ave, Chicago, 60630
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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 "BRENA, NICOLE" under Provider Name and 60630 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 607831).
- 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 "BRENA, NICOLE" under Provider Name and 60630 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 607831).
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.