Chicago · Licensed family home
Torregroza, Karen
A family home in Chicago, licensed for up to 6 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Small home. Small means licensed for 2 to 7 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Mid-size is 8; 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: 1 of 1 cited something
Across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits). One visit is 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 18, 2026
- On file
- 1 visit, June 2026 — it cited findings
- Fixed?
- Correction was due July 21, 2026. 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 2026 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · June 18, 2026
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(i) · Violation corrected
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c) · Violation corrected
Children Under 30 Months of Age
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.22(b)(4) · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 649251 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 2107078346
- Address
- 2555 N Leclaire Ave Unit 1
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
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 "TORREGROZA, KAREN" under Provider Name and 60639 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 649251).