Elgin · Licensed family home

Rea, Lorena

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 both of its licensing inspections since September 2025.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

Oct 19, 20263 citations
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(2)
Sep 24, 20258 citations
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(29)
- 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)(4)(a)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(9)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(g)
- Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(f)

The state cited rules at both of this home's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected twice had the same: 61% of 389.

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%
Both61%This home

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: October 19, 2026
On file: 2 visits since September 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was November 19, 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.

Oct 2026 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · October 19, 2026

Records and Reports

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1) through (2) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(1) · 406.24(d)(2)

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 630285 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 8 findings

Monitoring visit · September 24, 2025

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(4)(a) through (g) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(4)(a) · 406.8(a)(9) · 406.8(a)(23) · 406.8(a)(29) · 406.8(g)

Provisions Pertaining to the License

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

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

Records and Reports

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(f) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 630285 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone: (224) 454-5881
Address: 9n767 Tipi Ln, Elgin, 60124

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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 "REA, LORENA" under Provider Name and 60124 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 630285).
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 "REA, LORENA" under Provider Name and 60124 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 630285).

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.