Forest Park · Licensed family home
Lahera, Gingi R
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 2 licensing inspections since January 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Jan 30, 20262 citations
Caregivers
Caregivers
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(f)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
Health, Medical Care and Safety
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)
- Jan 27, 2025Nothing cited
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 30, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since January 2025 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due March 1, 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.
Jan 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · January 30, 2026
Caregivers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(f) · Violation substantiated
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 625209 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (708) 829-5307
- Address
- 1037 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, 60130
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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 "LAHERA, GINGI R" under Provider Name and 60130 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 625209).
- License — Checked October 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "LAHERA, GINGI R" under Provider Name and 60130 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 625209).
- 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 "LAHERA, GINGI R" under Provider Name and 60130 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 625209).
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.