Waukegan · Licensed family home
Mendoza, Galilea
A family home in Waukegan, licensed for up to 12 children. The state cited something at 4 of 6 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: 4 of 6 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
- March 4, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since April 2023 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 4, 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.
Mar 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 4, 2026
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(o) · Violation corrected on site
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 604996 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 20, 2025
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(20) · Violation corrected
Caregivers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 604996 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · September 21, 2023
Substitutes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.55(a) through (c) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.55(a) · 408.55(c)
General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 604996 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2023 Monitoring visit 11 findings
Monitoring visit · April 12, 2023
Records and Reports
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(1) through (o) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.120(a)(1) · 408.120(a)(3) · 408.120(o)
Application for Renewal of License
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.15(e)(1) through (2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.15(e)(1) · 408.15(e)(2)
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(3) through (13) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(a)(3) · 408.30(a)(13)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(c) through (d) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.60(c) · 408.60(d)
General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(f) · Violation corrected
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 604996 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 8473124727
- Address
- 2313 N Northern Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
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All checked August 2026.
State record
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "MENDOZA, GALILEA" under Provider Name and 60087 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 604996).