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North Chicago · Licensed family home

Mason, Shena D

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 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since September 2025.

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Licensing inspections

  • Sep 16, 20261 citation
    • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

      • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(a)

  • Sep 29, 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
September 16, 2026
On file
2 visits since September 2025 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due October 16, 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.

Sep 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · September 16, 2026

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 632430 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

Details

Phone
(847) 313-8931
Address
2131 Wallace Ave, North Chicago, 60064

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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 "MASON, SHENA D" under Provider Name and 60064 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 632430).
  • 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 "MASON, SHENA D" under Provider Name and 60064 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 632430).

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.

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