Aurora · Licensed family home
Childress, Pamela M
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
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: 7 of 8 cited something
Chicago-area family homes: the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
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State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- September 12, 2025
- On file
- 8 visits since August 2015 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 12, 2025. 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.
Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 12, 2025
Number and Ages of Children Served
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.13(d)(1)(b) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 285268 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2024 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · August 14, 2024
Provisions Pertaining to the License
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(c) through (d) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(c) · 406.6(d)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · Violation corrected
Number and Ages of Children Served
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.13(d)(1)(b) · Violation corrected
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 285268 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 10, 2021
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 285268 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2019 Monitoring visit 12 findings
Monitoring visit · August 27, 2019
Records and Reports
7 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1) through (e)(2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1) · 406.24(d)(2) · 406.24(d)(3) · 406.24(d)(4) · 406.24(d)(5) · 406.24(e)(1) · 406.24(e)(2)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(c)(4) · 406.14(c)(6)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 285268 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2017 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · July 25, 2017
Health, Medical Care and Safety
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (e) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(e)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 285268 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2016 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · August 23, 2016
Health, Medical Care and Safety
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(c)(4)
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 285268 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2015 Monitoring visit 14 findings
Monitoring visit · August 21, 2015
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
8 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(2) through (h)(4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(2) · 406.12(b)(3) · 406.12(h)(1)(a) · 406.12(h)(1)(b) · 406.12(h)(1)(c) · 406.12(h)(2) · 406.12(h)(3) · 406.12(h)(4)
Records and Reports
5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) through (f) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · 406.24(d)(1) · 406.24(d)(2) · 406.24(d)(3) · 406.24(f)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(24) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 285268 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
- Address
- 1040 Commonwealth Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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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 "CHILDRESS, PAMELA M" under Provider Name and 60506 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 285268).