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Waukegan · Licensed family home

Ruiz-Martinez, Claudia M

At a glance

  • Larger family home, licensed for up to 12 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 4 licensing inspections since May 2023.

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Licensing inspections

  • Apr 28, 2026Nothing cited
  • Apr 24, 20251 citation
    • Caregivers

      • Caregivers

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(e)(3)

  • Apr 11, 2024Nothing cited
  • May 4, 2023Nothing cited

The state cited rules at 1 of this home's 4 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 4 times had more: 81% of 406 had rules cited at 2 or more.

How all 406 Chicago-area family homes inspected 4 times compare

Of the 406 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected 4 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None6%
  • 1 of 413%This home
  • 2 of 418%
  • 3 of 421%
  • All 442%
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
April 28, 2026
On file
4 visits since May 2023 — 3 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due May 26, 2025. 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.

Apr 2026 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · April 24, 2025

Caregivers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.45(e)(3) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 608982 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2024 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
May 2023 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

Details

Phone
(224) 303-5488
Address
424 N Berwick Blvd, Waukegan, 60085

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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 "RUIZ-MARTINEZ, CLAUDIA M" under Provider Name and 60085 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 608982).
  • 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 "RUIZ-MARTINEZ, CLAUDIA M" under Provider Name and 60085 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 608982).

Larger means licensed for 9 to 12 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,344 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 2 to 7; mid-size is 8.

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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