Arlington Heights · Licensed family home

Malzahn, Mari M

At a glance

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

What to know

License: birth 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 7 of its 9 licensing inspections since July 2012.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

Jun 4, 2025Nothing cited
Jun 15, 2023Nothing cited
Apr 19, 20192 citations
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21)
Jun 6, 20182 citations
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)
- Guidance and Discipline
  Guidance and Discipline
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.15(a)(4)
Jun 21, 20172 citations
- 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)
Jun 8, 20162 citations
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c)
- Health, Medical Care and Safety
  Health, Medical Care and Safety
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4)
Jul 23, 20142 citations
- Provisions Pertaining to the License
  Provisions Pertaining to the License
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(32)
Jun 14, 20134 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(c)
- Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(a)
- Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(ai)
Jul 16, 201210 citations
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(18)(a)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(18)(b)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(18)(c)
- Application for License
  Application for License
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4(b)(1)(f)
- Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(a)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(i)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(e)(3)
- 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)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1)

The state cited rules at 7 of this home's 9 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 9 times had more: 67% of 126 had rules cited at 8 or more.

How all 126 Chicago-area family homes inspected 9 times compare

Of the 126 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected 9 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

4 of 92%
5 of 96%
6 of 910%
7 of 917%This home
8 of 925%
All 942%

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: June 4, 2025
On file: 9 visits since July 2012 — 2 cited nothing
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was May 30, 2019. 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.

Jun 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

Jun 2023 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

Apr 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · April 19, 2019

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20) through (21) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20) · 406.8(a)(21)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 306291 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2018 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · June 6, 2018

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

Guidance and Discipline

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.15(a)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 306291 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2017 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · June 21, 2017

Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 306291 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2016 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · June 8, 2016

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4) · Violation substantiated

Records and Reports

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 306291 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2014 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · July 23, 2014

Provisions Pertaining to the License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k) · Violation corrected

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(32) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 306291 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2013 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · June 14, 2013

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(a) through (ai) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(a) · 406.12(b)(3)(ai)

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(c) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 306291 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2012 Monitoring visit 10 findings

Monitoring visit · July 16, 2012

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(18)(a) through (c) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(18)(a) · 406.8(a)(18)(b) · 406.8(a)(18)(c)

Records and Reports

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1) through (i) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1) · 406.24(e)(3) · 406.24(i)

Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

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

Application for License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4(b)(1)(f) · Violation corrected

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 306291 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone: (847) 670-5813
Address: 1315 West Richmond Street, Arlington Heights, 60004

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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 "MALZAHN, MARI M" under Provider Name and 60004 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 306291).
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 "MALZAHN, MARI M" under Provider Name and 60004 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 306291).

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.