Chicago · Licensed family home

Zamora, Tamara M

What these mean, and where they come from

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 1 cited something

Chicago-area family homes: the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits. One visit is too few to read as a pattern.

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
November 17, 2021
On file
1 visit, November 2021 — it cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due December 17, 2021. 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.

Nov 2021 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · November 17, 2021

General Requirements for Group Day Care Home Family

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.35(f) · Violation substantiated

Background Checks

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.40(a) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 583646 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

How the comparison is built

Routine visits: across Chicago-area family homes, the state cites something at about 4 in 5 routine visits (16,457 visits).

Details

7736101925

Website
happychildrenchicago.com
Address
3562 W Wabansia Ave Apt 1
License
license issued (il)

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All checked July 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 "ZAMORA, TAMARA M" under Provider Name and 60647 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 583646).
  • Website happychildrenchicago.com