Lake Villa · Licensed family home
Secketa, Nicole M
At a glance
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited no rules at any of its 3 licensing inspections since May 2023.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- May 7, 2026Nothing cited
- May 6, 2024Nothing cited
- May 15, 2023Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this home's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times had at least one: 88% of 423.
How all 423 Chicago-area family homes inspected 3 times compare
Of the 423 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None12%This home
- 1 of 317%
- 2 of 320%
- All 351%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- May 7, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since May 2023 — all of them cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file.
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.
Details
- Phone
- (224) 577-8002
- Address
- 37280 N Cremona Ave, Lake Villa, 60046
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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 "SECKETA, NICOLE M" under Provider Name and 60046 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 548512).
- 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 "SECKETA, NICOLE M" under Provider Name and 60046 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 548512).
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.