Chicago · Licensed family home
Garcia, Maria G
A family home in Chicago, licensed for up to 10 children. 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: 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
- August 11, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since September 2024 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 10, 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.
Aug 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 11, 2026
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(3) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 592602 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · July 16, 2025
School Age Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.110(g) · Violation substantiated
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(6) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 592602 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 13, 2024
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(c) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 592602 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7737124855
- Address
- 3435 W 55th St
- 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 "GARCIA, MARIA G" under Provider Name and 60632 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 592602).