Chicago · Licensed family home

Cox, Patricia

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: 3 of 5 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.

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
December 24, 2024
On file
5 visits since November 2014 — 2 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was April 10, 2020. 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 2024 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Dec 2023 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Mar 2020 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · March 2, 2020

Provisions Pertaining to the License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6 · Violation corrected

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(6) · Violation corrected

Records and Reports

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(p) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 462526 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2015 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · December 1, 2015

Provisions Pertaining to the License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k) · Violation corrected

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(6) · Violation corrected

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(1) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(h)(1) · Violation corrected

Children Under 30 Months of Age

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.22(f) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 462526 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Nov 2014 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · November 10, 2014

Provisions Pertaining to the License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k) · Violation corrected

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(32) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 462526 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

7738705929

Address
4911 W Washington Blvd Fl 1st
License
license issued (il)

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All checked August 2026.

State record

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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 "COX, PATRICIA" under Provider Name and 60644 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 462526).