Lake Villa · Licensed family home
Cervantes, Brenda M
- Larger family home, licensed for up to 12 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 1 of its 3 licensing inspections since December 2022.
Of the 420 Chicago-area family homes with 3 licensing inspections, 18% had rules cited at 1 of them, as this home did. 50% had rules cited at all 3, 13% at none.
Licensing inspections
Dec 6, 20224 citations
Health, Medical Care and Safety
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(1)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(2)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)
Health, Medical Care and Safety
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a)(4)
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State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- November 20, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since December 2022 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due January 5, 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.
Dec 2022 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · December 6, 2022
Health, Medical Care and Safety
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a) through (4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 408.70(a) · 408.70(a)(1) · 408.70(a)(2) · 408.70(a)(4)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 596421 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
- Address
- 1357 Regency Ln
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "CERVANTES, BRENDA M" under Provider Name and 60046 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 596421).
- License — Checked October 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "CERVANTES, BRENDA M" under Provider Name and 60046 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 596421).
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.