Chicago · Licensed family home
Thornton, Dana M
A family home in Chicago, licensed for up to 8 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Mid-size home. 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
Across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 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
- August 12, 2024
- On file
- 3 visits since September 2018 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 12, 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.
Aug 2024 Monitoring visit 9 findings
Monitoring visit · August 12, 2024
Health, Medical Care and Safety
5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (j) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(c)(4) · 406.14(j)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(h)(1)(b) through (j) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(h)(1)(b) · 406.12(h)(1)(c) · 406.12(j)
Application for License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 566059 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · November 20, 2023
Cooperation with the Department
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(b) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 566059 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2018 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · September 14, 2018
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19) through (24) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19) · 406.8(a)(20) · 406.8(a)(23) · 406.8(a)(24)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 566059 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 3123637254
- Address
- 9135 S Emerald Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
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All checked July 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THORNTON, DANA M" under Provider Name and 60620 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 566059).