Chicago · Licensed family home
Fernandez, Minerva
A family home in Chicago, licensed for up to 12 children. The state cited something at 6 of 6 routine visits (Chicago-area family homes: about 4 in 5). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Larger home. Larger means licensed for 9 to 12 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 2 to 7; mid-size is 8.
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: 6 of 6 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
- March 6, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since April 2019 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was March 27, 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.
Mar 2026 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · March 6, 2026
Health, Medical Care and Safety
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(2) through (3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(2) · 408.70(a)(3)
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575593 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · February 15, 2024
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 575593 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2023 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · January 11, 2023
Health, Medical Care and Safety
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · 408.70(a)(2) · 408.70(a)(3)
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575593 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · March 25, 2021
Caregivers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575593 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2020 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · January 2, 2020
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a) through (b) · Violation corrected on site · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a) · 408.30(b)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575593 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2019 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 16, 2019
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575593 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7732423070
- Address
- 3117 N Menard Ave
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
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 "FERNANDEZ, MINERVA" under Provider Name and 60634 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 575593).