Chicago · Licensed family home
Fields, Romeka M
A family home in Chicago, licensed for up to 8 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.
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: 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
- October 31, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since March 2019 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 31, 2025. 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 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · October 31, 2025
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(c) through (j) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(c) · 406.9(j)
Number and Ages of Children Served
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.13(d)(1)(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 567385 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2024 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · November 25, 2024
Health, Medical Care and Safety
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (j) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(j)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(j) · Violation corrected
Nutrition and Meals
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17(g) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 567385 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · December 22, 2023
Records and Reports
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24 through (d)(2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24 · 406.24(d)(2)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(g) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 567385 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2019 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · March 21, 2019
Records and Reports
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) through (f) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · 406.24(e) · 406.24(f)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(a) through (h) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(a) · 406.12(h)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 567385 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7082384618
- Address
- 9420 S Ada St
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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Sources and dates
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All checked August 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 "FIELDS, ROMEKA M" under Provider Name and 60620 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 567385).