Berwyn · Licensed family home

Guzman, Ruth A

At a glance

Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.

What to know

License: 6 weeks to 12 years (state).

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 5 of its 6 licensing inspections since January 2018.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

Dec 8, 2025Nothing cited
Nov 14, 20242 citations
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(e)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)
Nov 5, 20212 citations
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(3)
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4)
Oct 22, 20193 citations
- School Age Children
  School Age Children
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.21(d)(1)
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f)
Nov 15, 20182 citations
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(j)(1)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(e)
Jan 11, 20187 citations
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(a)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(e)
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(j)(1)
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2)
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(3)

The state cited rules at 5 of this home's 6 inspections. Chicago-area family homes inspected 6 times split three ways: 31% had fewer, 25% the same, and 44% more (328 family homes).

How all 328 Chicago-area family homes inspected 6 times compare

Of the 328 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected 6 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

1 of 61%
2 of 64%
3 of 69%
4 of 616%
5 of 625%This home
All 644%

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: December 8, 2025
On file: 6 visits since January 2018 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was December 14, 2024. 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.

Dec 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

Nov 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · November 14, 2024

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(e) · Violation corrected

Records and Reports

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 561822 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Nov 2021 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · November 5, 2021

Health, Medical Care and Safety

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(3) through (4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(c)(4)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 561822 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Oct 2019 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · October 22, 2019

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f) · Violation corrected

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2) · Violation corrected

School Age Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.21(d)(1) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 561822 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Nov 2018 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · November 15, 2018

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(j)(1) · Violation corrected

Records and Reports

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(e) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 561822 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jan 2018 Monitoring visit 7 findings

Monitoring visit · January 11, 2018

Health, Medical Care and Safety

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c) through (j)(1) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(j)(1)

Records and Reports

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(a) through (e) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(a) · 406.24(e)

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 561822 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone: (773) 789-0173
Address: 6908 13th St, Berwyn, 60402

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.

Details

Phone, Address — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "GUZMAN, RUTH A" under Provider Name and 60402 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 561822).
License — Checked October 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "GUZMAN, RUTH A" under Provider Name and 60402 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 561822).
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 "GUZMAN, RUTH A" under Provider Name and 60402 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 561822).

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.