Chicago · Licensed family home
Gamez, Cindy J
At a glance
- Larger family home, licensed for up to 12 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 3 licensing inspections since February 2020.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Mar 5, 2025Nothing cited
- Feb 5, 2024Nothing cited
Feb 27, 20202 citations
Provisions Pertaining to Permits
Provisions Pertaining to Permits
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.25(f)
Records and Reports
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(2)
The state cited rules at 1 of this home's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times had more: 71% of 423 had rules cited at 2 or more.
How all 423 Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times compare
Of the 423 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None12%
- 1 of 317%This home
- 2 of 320%
- All 351%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- March 5, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2020 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due March 5, 2020. 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.
Feb 2020 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · February 27, 2020
Provisions Pertaining to Permits
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.25(f) · Violation corrected on site
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 584374 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 217-2014
- Address
- 2637 N Major Ave, Chicago, 60639
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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 "GAMEZ, CINDY J" under Provider Name and 60639 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 584374).
- 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 "GAMEZ, CINDY J" under Provider Name and 60639 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 584374).
Larger means licensed for 9 to 12 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,344 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 2 to 7; mid-size is 8.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.