Cicero · Licensed family home
Vega Ortiz, Graciela
A family home in Cicero, licensed for up to 12 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Larger home. Larger means licensed for 9 to 12 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 2 to 7; mid-size is 8.
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 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
- April 27, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since October 2023 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due May 20, 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.
Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 7 findings
Monitoring visit · April 27, 2026
Transportation of Children
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.90(c) through (e) · Violation corrected · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.90(c) · 408.90(d)(1) · 408.90(e)
General Requirements for Group Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.30(i) · Violation corrected
General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(f) · Violation corrected
Background Checks
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.40(a) · Violation corrected
Program
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.85(i) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 616170 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7086633795
- Address
- 3617 S Central Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
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All checked August 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 "VEGA ORTIZ, GRACIELA" under Provider Name and 60804 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 616170).