Chicago · Licensed family home
Smith, Elma L
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What these mean, and where they come from
Mid-size means licensed for 8 children, the size at least half of Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes hold. Small is 2 to 7; larger is 9 to 12.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 3 of 3 cited something
Chicago-area family homes: the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits. Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- June 12, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since September 2010 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was July 12, 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.
Jun 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · June 12, 2025
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(2) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 359372 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2014 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 19, 2014
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(k) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 359372 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2010 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · September 2, 2010
Health, Medical Care and Safety
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 359372 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
How the comparison is built
Routine visits: across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits).
Details
- Address
- 5645 W Washington Blvd Apt 2s
- License
- license issued (il)
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All checked July 2026.
State record
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Details
- Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "SMITH, ELMA L" under Provider Name and 60644 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 359372).