Oak Park · Licensed family home

Serratos, Gabriela

At a glance

Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 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 all 4 of its licensing inspections since May 2019.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

Jul 17, 20251 citation
- Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(1)
Aug 30, 20234 citations
- Application for License
  Application for License
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4(b)(1)(h)
- Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)
- Nutrition and Meals
  Nutrition and Meals
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17(a)
- Records and Reports
  Records and Reports
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(f)
Jul 26, 20221 citation
- Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)
May 31, 20192 citations
- Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(a)
- General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  General Requirements for Day Care Homes
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f)

The state cited rules at all 4 of this home's inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 4 times had fewer: 58% of 406.

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%
2 of 418%
3 of 421%
All 442%This home

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: July 17, 2025
On file: 4 visits since May 2019 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was July 31, 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.

Jul 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 17, 2025

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 324992 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Aug 2023 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · August 30, 2023

Application for License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4(b)(1)(h) · Violation corrected

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

Nutrition and Meals

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17(a) · 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 324992 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 26, 2022

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 324992 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

May 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · May 31, 2019

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 324992 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone: (708) 539-2109
Address: 542 S Taylor Ave, Oak Park, 60304

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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 "SERRATOS, GABRIELA" under Provider Name and 60304 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 324992).
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 "SERRATOS, GABRIELA" under Provider Name and 60304 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 324992).

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.