Chicago · Licensed family home
Gaines, Bernice
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 4 of its 6 licensing inspections since November 2016.
Of the 327 Chicago-area family homes with 6 licensing inspections, 17% had rules cited at 4 of them, as this home did. 43% had rules cited at all 6.
Licensing inspections
Oct 11, 20241 citation
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)
Oct 19, 20233 citations
Application for License
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4(b)(1)(h)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(j)
Nov 7, 20173 citations
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(2)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(14)
Nov 3, 20164 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(3)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(14)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(e)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- August 18, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since November 2016 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was November 11, 2024. 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 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · October 11, 2024
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 385405 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · October 19, 2023
Application for License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.4(b)(1)(h) · Violation corrected
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3) · Violation corrected
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(j) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 385405 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2017 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · November 7, 2017
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2) through (14) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2) · 406.8(a)(14)
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 385405 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2016 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · November 3, 2016
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2) through (e) · Violation corrected on site · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2) · 406.8(a)(3) · 406.8(a)(14) · 406.8(e)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 385405 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
- 3453 W Beach Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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All checked August 2026.
State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 9, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "GAINES, BERNICE" under Provider Name and 60651 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 385405).
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.