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Evanston · Licensed family home

Sheridan, Martha I

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 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since November 2022.

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Licensing inspections

  • Jan 6, 2025Nothing cited
  • Nov 15, 20221 citation
    • Health, Medical Care and Safety

      • Health, Medical Care and Safety

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4)

The state cited rules at 1 of this home's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected twice had more: 61% of 389 had rules cited at both.

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%This home
  • Both61%
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
January 6, 2025
On file
2 visits since November 2022 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due November 29, 2022. 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.

Jan 2025 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Nov 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · November 15, 2022

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 156613 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(847) 733-7472
Address
1120 Fowler Ave, Evanston, 60202

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "SHERIDAN, MARTHA I" under Provider Name and 60202 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 156613).
  • License — Checked October 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "SHERIDAN, MARTHA I" under Provider Name and 60202 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 156613).
  • 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 "SHERIDAN, MARTHA I" under Provider Name and 60202 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 156613).

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.

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