Hillside · Licensed family home
Howard, Karen C
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 all 3 of its licensing inspections since March 2010.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Jan 14, 20253 citations
Nutrition and Meals
Nutrition and Meals
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17(a)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f)
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(2)
Dec 4, 20232 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(29)
Mar 2, 20102 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
Health, Medical Care and Safety
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2)
The state cited rules at all 3 of this home's inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times had the same: 51% of 423.
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%
- 2 of 320%
- All 351%This home
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 14, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since March 2010 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was January 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.
Jan 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · January 14, 2025
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f) · Violation corrected
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(2) · Violation corrected
Nutrition and Meals
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 426188 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · December 4, 2023
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21) through (29) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21) · 406.8(a)(29)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 426188 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2010 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 2, 2010
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2) · Violation corrected
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 426188 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (708) 954-0682
- Address
- 244 N Elm St, Hillside, 60162
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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 "HOWARD, KAREN C" under Provider Name and 60162 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 426188).
- 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 "HOWARD, KAREN C" under Provider Name and 60162 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 426188).
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.