Chicago · Licensed family home
Collins, Valerie N
A family home in Chicago, licensed for up to 7 children. The state cited something at 4 of 4 routine visits (Chicago-area family homes: about 4 in 5). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Small home. Small means licensed for 2 to 7 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Mid-size is 8; 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: 4 of 4 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
- December 11, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since March 2024 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was March 12, 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.
Dec 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · December 11, 2025
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(j)(1) · 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 584545 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2025 Monitoring visit 10 findings
Monitoring visit · February 27, 2025
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(3) through (i) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(3) · 408.30(a)(4)(a) · 408.30(i)
Transportation of Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.90(d)(1) through (2) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.90(d)(1) · 408.90(d)(2)
Cooperation with the Department
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.130(a) through (b) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.130(a) · 408.130(b)
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
Caregivers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 584545 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2024 Monitoring visit 12 findings
Monitoring visit · June 6, 2024
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 Home Family
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(a) through (i) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(a) · 408.35(g) · 408.35(i)
Records and Reports
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(1) through (i) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(1) · 408.120(i)
Application for Renewal of License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.15(e) · Violation corrected
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(16) · Violation corrected
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 584545 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 26, 2024
Cooperation with the Department
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.130(a) through (b) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.130(a) · 408.130(b)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 584545 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7739349047
- Address
- 8434 S Carpenter St
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
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All checked July 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "COLLINS, VALERIE N" under Provider Name and 60620 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 584545).