Aurora · Licensed family home

Cortes, Maria M

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 8 of its 9 licensing inspections since October 2016.

Of the 122 Chicago-area family homes with 9 licensing inspections, 25% had rules cited at 8 of them, as this home did. 46% had rules cited at all 9.

Licensing inspections

Jul 13, 20261 citation

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4)

Sep 10, 20254 citations

  • 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)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

Jul 24, 20241 citation

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

Sep 1, 2023No rules cited
Jul 11, 20223 citations

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(14)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c)

Sep 4, 20194 citations

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)(h)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(11)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)(g)

Jul 19, 20185 citations

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(3)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(1)

  • Provisions Pertaining to the License

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k)

1 more from this inspection

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(14)

Jun 2, 20176 citations

  • Children Under 30 Months of Age

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.22(b)(4)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)

  • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

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

2 more from this inspection

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(29)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(h)(5)

Oct 3, 20165 citations

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)

  • 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)

1 more from this inspection

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
July 13, 2026
On file
9 visits since October 2016 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was August 13, 2026. 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 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 13, 2026

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · September 10, 2025

Health, Medical Care and Safety

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) through (4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(c)(4)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 24, 2024

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2023 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Jul 2022 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · July 11, 2022

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(14) · Rule cited again

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · Rule cited again

Records and Reports

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2019 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · September 4, 2019

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(11) through (19)(h) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(11) · 406.8(a)(19)(g) · 406.8(a)(19)(h)

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · Rule cited again

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2018 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · July 19, 2018

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(1) through (14) · Violation corrected on site · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(1) · 406.8(a)(3) · 406.8(a)(14)

Provisions Pertaining to the License

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

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(1) · Rule cited again

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2017 Monitoring visit 6 findings

Monitoring visit · June 2, 2017

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21) through (h)(5) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21) · 406.8(a)(29) · 406.8(h)(5)

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · Violation corrected

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c) · Violation corrected

Children Under 30 Months of Age

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.22(b)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Oct 2016 Monitoring visit 5 findings

Monitoring visit · October 3, 2016

Health, Medical Care and Safety

5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c) through (4) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c) · 406.14(c)(1) · 406.14(c)(2) · 406.14(c)(3) · 406.14(c)(4)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 542072 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

6306390934

Address
175 S 4th St
License
license issued (il)

Run Cortes, Maria M? Correct or add anything here, free.

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Sources and dates

Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.

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 "CORTES, MARIA M" under Provider Name and 60505 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 542072).

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.