Plainfield · Licensed family home
Ward, Elsa M
At a glance
- Small family home, licensed for up to 7 children.
What to know
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 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since April 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Jan 13, 2026Nothing cited
Apr 10, 20251 citation
Health, Medical Care and Safety
Health, Medical Care and Safety
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)
The state cited rules at 1 of this home's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area family homes inspected twice had more: 61% of 389 had rules cited at both.
How all 389 Chicago-area family homes inspected twice compare
Of the 389 Chicago-area family homes the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None19%
- 1 of 221%This home
- Both61%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 13, 2026
- On file
- 2 visits since April 2025 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due May 12, 2025. 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 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 10, 2025
Health, Medical Care and Safety
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 633770 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (224) 518-2106
- Address
- 21432 W Georgetown Dr, Plainfield, 60544
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "WARD, ELSA M" under Provider Name and 60544 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 633770).
- 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 "WARD, ELSA M" under Provider Name and 60544 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 633770).
Small means licensed for 2 to 7 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,344 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Mid-size is 8; 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.