Park Forest · Licensed family home
Simpkins Primer, Brenda
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 rules at 3 of its 5 licensing inspections since October 2019.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Nov 6, 20242 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(6)
Records and Reports
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(j)
- Sep 15, 2021Nothing cited
Aug 3, 20211 citation
Cooperation with the Department
Cooperation with the Department
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26
- Dec 22, 2020Nothing cited
Oct 31, 20195 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)
Records and Reports
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)
The state cited rules at 3 of this home's 5 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected 5 times had more: 64% of 357 had rules cited at 4 or more.
How all 357 Chicago-area family homes inspected 5 times compare
Of the 357 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected 5 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None1%
- 1 of 56%
- 2 of 512%
- 3 of 517%This home
- 4 of 521%
- All 543%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- November 6, 2024
- On file
- 5 visits since October 2019 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 6, 2024. 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.
Nov 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · November 6, 2024
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(6) · Violation substantiated
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(j) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 573322 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 3, 2021
Cooperation with the Department
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26 · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 573322 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2019 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · October 31, 2019
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19) through (23) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19) · 406.8(a)(20) · 406.8(a)(23)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · Violation corrected
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 573322 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (708) 559-7578
- Address
- 179 Westwood Dr, Park Forest, 60466
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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 "SIMPKINS PRIMER, BRENDA" under Provider Name and 60466 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 573322).
- 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 "SIMPKINS PRIMER, BRENDA" under Provider Name and 60466 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 573322).
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.