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Raco Group

At a glance

  • Medium center, licensed for 104 children.

What to know

License: 6 weeks 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 both of its licensing inspections since February 2025.

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Licensing inspections

  • Feb 25, 20261 citation
    • Health Requirements for Children
      • Health Requirements for Children

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)

  • Feb 3, 20251 citation
    • Personnel Records
      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)

The state cited rules at both of this center's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected twice had the same: 60% of 83.

How all 83 Chicago-area centers inspected twice compare

Of the 83 Chicago-area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None13%
  • 1 of 227%
  • Both60%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
February 25, 2026
On file
2 visits since February 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was March 27, 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.

Feb 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · February 25, 2026

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 627865 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Feb 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · February 3, 2025

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 627865 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(708) 656-5437
Address
5615 W Cermak Rd, Cicero, 60804

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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 "RACO GROUP" under Provider Name and 60804 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 627865).
  • 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 "RACO GROUP" under Provider Name and 60804 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 627865).

Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.

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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