Elmwood Park · Licensed family home

Ballard, Shaquita

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 3 of its 4 licensing inspections since October 2022.

Of the 410 Chicago-area family homes with 4 licensing inspections, 20% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this home did. 42% had rules cited at all 4, 6% at none.

Licensing inspections

Jul 25, 20255 citations

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(i)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)

  • Application for Renewal of License

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.5(e)

1 more from this inspection

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20)

Aug 16, 2024No rules cited
Sep 29, 20238 citations

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(n)

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23)

4 more from this inspection

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(h)

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c)

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(e)

Oct 4, 20227 citations

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(e)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(h)(1)

  • Nutrition and Meals

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17

3 more from this inspection

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(f)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(i)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
July 25, 2025
On file
4 visits since October 2022 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was August 15, 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.

Jul 2025 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · July 25, 2025

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20) through (23) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20) · 406.8(a)(21) · 406.8(a)(23)

Application for Renewal of License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.5(e) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(i) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 610683 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Aug 2024 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Sep 2023 Monitoring visit 8 findings

Monitoring visit · September 29, 2023

Records and Reports

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) through (e) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · 406.24(d) · 406.24(e)

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(n) through (t) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(n) · 406.9(t)

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) through (h) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · 406.12(h)

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(23) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 610683 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Oct 2022 Monitoring visit 7 findings

Monitoring visit · October 4, 2022

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) through (i) · Violation substantiated · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · 406.12(h)(1) · 406.12(i)

Records and Reports

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d) through (f) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d) · 406.24(e) · 406.24(f)

Nutrition and Meals

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17 · Violation corrected on site

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 610683 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.

Details

2242892122

Address
7920 W Fletcher St
License
license issued (il)

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All checked August 2026.

State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BALLARD, SHAQUITA" under Provider Name and 60707 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 610683).

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.