Calumet City · Licensed family home
Draper, Kenyatta A
A family home in Calumet City, licensed for up to 8 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Mid-size home. 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 3 cited something
Across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits). Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
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
- October 23, 2024
- On file
- 3 visits since October 2020 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was November 22, 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.
Oct 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · October 23, 2024
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(c) · Violation substantiated
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 580267 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 27, 2023
Guidance and Discipline
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.15(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 580267 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2020 Monitoring visit 31 findings
Monitoring visit · October 23, 2020
Records and Reports
31 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(a) through (s) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(a) · 406.24(b) · 406.24(c) · 406.24(d) · 406.24(d)(1) · 406.24(d)(2) · 406.24(d)(3) · 406.24(d)(4) · 406.24(d)(5) · 406.24(e) · 406.24(e)(1) · 406.24(e)(2) · 406.24(e)(5) · 406.24(e)(6) · 406.24(f) · 406.24(h) · 406.24(i)(1) · 406.24(i)(2) · 406.24(i)(3) · 406.24(j) · 406.24(k) · 406.24(l) · 406.24(m) · 406.24(n) · 406.24(n)(1) · 406.24(n)(2) · 406.24(n)(3) · 406.24(o) · 406.24(p) · 406.24(r) · 406.24(s)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 580267 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7735598070
- Address
- 454 Madison Ave
- 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 "DRAPER, KENYATTA A" under Provider Name and 60409 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 580267).