Chicago · Licensed family home
Cazares-Carrera, Geovanni
At a glance
- Larger family home, licensed for up to 11 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 October 2023.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Oct 6, 20233 citations
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(c)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(d)
Records and Reports
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(3)
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
- October 6, 2023
- On file
- 1 visit, October 2023 — it cited findings
- Fixed?
- Correction was due November 5, 2023. 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.
Oct 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · October 6, 2023
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(c) through (d) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(c) · 408.60(d)
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 567022 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 787-7240
- Address
- 8635 S Knox Ave, Chicago, 60652
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "CAZARES-CARRERA, GEOVANNI" under Provider Name and 60652 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 567022).
- 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 "CAZARES-CARRERA, GEOVANNI" under Provider Name and 60652 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 567022).
Larger means licensed for 9 to 12 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,344 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 2 to 7; mid-size is 8.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.