Waukegan · Licensed family home
Lopez, Erendira
A family home in Waukegan, licensed for up to 12 children. The state cited something at 5 of 7 routine visits (Chicago-area family homes: about 4 in 5). 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: 5 of 7 cited something
Across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits).
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
- November 20, 2025
- On file
- 7 visits since March 2019 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 20, 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.
Nov 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · November 20, 2025
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(j) · Violation corrected
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 560286 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2020 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · February 21, 2020
Caregivers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(a) · Violation substantiated
Substitutes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.55(c) · Violation substantiated
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(p) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 560286 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2020 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · January 3, 2020
General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(i) through (j) · Violation substantiated · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(i) · 408.35(j)
Substitutes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.55(c) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 560286 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2019 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 21, 2019
Number and Ages of Children Served
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.65(b)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 560286 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 29, 2019
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(16) · Violation corrected
Substitutes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.55(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 560286 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 8476939401
- Address
- 1805 Brookside Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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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 August 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 "LOPEZ, ERENDIRA" under Provider Name and 60085 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 560286).