Lake Villa · Licensed family home

Castellanos, Paula

What the state has found

The state cited rules at both of its licensing inspections since October 2025.

Of the 394 Chicago-area family homes with 2 licensing inspections, 61% had rules cited at both, as this home did. 18% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Oct 27, 20257 citations

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1)

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(i)

  • Provisions Pertaining to the License

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k)

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(n)

3 more from this inspection

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(3)

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

Oct 26, 20257 citations

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(n)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(3)

3 more from this inspection

  • Provisions Pertaining to the License

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k)

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(i)

  • A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
October 27, 2025
On file
2 visits since October 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was November 27, 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.

Oct 2025 Monitoring visit 7 findings

Monitoring visit · October 27, 2025

Health, Medical Care and Safety

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3)

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(i) · 406.9(n)

Provisions Pertaining to the License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k) · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 637309 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Oct 2025 Monitoring visit 7 findings

Monitoring visit · October 26, 2025

Health, Medical Care and Safety

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3)

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(i) · 406.9(n)

Provisions Pertaining to the License

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k) · Violation corrected

A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, FHSEC305.

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 637309 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

8473385505

Address
37398 N Cremona Ave
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 "CASTELLANOS, PAULA" under Provider Name and 60046 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 637309).

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.