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Spears, Mildred

At a glance

  • Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.

What to know

License: 3 years 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 its 1 licensing inspection, in March 2023.

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Licensing inspections

  • Mar 7, 20232 citations
    • Cooperation with the Department

      • Cooperation with the Department

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(a)

    • Cooperation with the Department

      • Cooperation with the Department

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(b)

The state cited rules at this home's 1 inspection. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected once had the same: 73% of 304.

How all 304 Chicago-area family homes inspected once compare

Of the 304 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected once, whether that inspection cited a rule:

  • No27%
  • Yes73%This home
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
March 7, 2023
On file
1 visit, March 2023 — it cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due March 8, 2023. 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.

Mar 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · March 7, 2023

Cooperation with the Department

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(a) through (b) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(a) · 406.26(b)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 495614 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(708) 244-1628
Address
9033 S Western Ave, Chicago, 60643

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State record

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

Details

  • Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "SPEARS, MILDRED" under Provider Name and 60643 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 495614).
  • 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 "SPEARS, MILDRED" under Provider Name and 60643 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 495614).

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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