Chicago · Licensed family home
De La Torre, Maria 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: 2 of 4 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 10, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since April 2012 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 17, 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.
Sep 2024 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · September 27, 2024
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(3) through (13) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(3) · 406.8(a)(13)
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(i) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 393229 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2012 Monitoring visit 10 findings
Monitoring visit · April 27, 2012
Records and Reports
7 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) through (e)(6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · 406.24(e)(1) · 406.24(e)(2) · 406.24(e)(3) · 406.24(e)(4) · 406.24(e)(5) · 406.24(e)(6)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (j)(2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(j)(2)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(ai) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 393229 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
- 5240 S Lawndale Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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All checked July 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 "DE LA TORRE, MARIA M" under Provider Name and 60632 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 393229).