Chicago · Licensed family home
Ward, Adriane I
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: 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
- June 8, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since June 2023 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due July 26, 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.
Jun 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · June 27, 2023
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(17) through (29) · Violation corrected on site
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(17) · 406.8(a)(29)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)(ai) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 609999 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7733432007
- Address
- 419 E 44th St
- 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 August 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 "WARD, ADRIANE I" under Provider Name and 60653 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 609999).