Chicago · Licensed family home
Freeman, Brenda
At a glance
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since March 2019.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Jan 11, 2024Nothing cited
Mar 7, 20192 citations
Number and Ages of Children Served
Number and Ages of Children Served
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.13(a)
Number and Ages of Children Served
Number and Ages of Children Served
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.13(b)(1)
The state cited rules at 1 of this home's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected twice had more: 61% of 389 had rules cited at both.
How all 389 Chicago-area family homes inspected twice compare
Of the 389 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None19%
- 1 of 221%This home
- Both61%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 11, 2024
- On file
- 2 visits since March 2019 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due March 8, 2019. 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 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 7, 2019
Number and Ages of Children Served
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.13(a) through (b)(1) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.13(a) · 406.13(b)(1)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 552657 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 354-4742
- Address
- 4827 W Congress Pkwy, Chicago, 60644
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "FREEMAN, BRENDA" under Provider Name and 60644 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 552657).
- Ages on the license — Checked November 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "FREEMAN, BRENDA" under Provider Name and 60644 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 552657).
Mid-size means licensed for 8 children, the size at least half of Chicago-area’s 3,344 licensed family homes hold. Small is 2 to 7; larger is 9 to 12.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.