Chicago · Licensed family home

Gardiner, Yolanda L

Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 8 children.
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What the state has found

The state cited rules at all 7 of its licensing inspections since July 2016.

Of the 224 Chicago-area family homes with 7 licensing inspections, 43% had rules cited at all 7, as this home did.

Licensing inspections

Jul 17, 20253 citations

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(2)
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(m)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(g)

Jul 11, 20242 citations

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(m)
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)

Jul 11, 20221 citation

General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(29)

Aug 10, 20203 citations

General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(20)
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)(23)

Aug 6, 20192 citations

General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(g)

Jul 25, 20192 citations

Cooperation with the Department
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(a)
Cooperation with the Department
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(b)

Jul 11, 20161 citation

General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(32)

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: July 17, 2025
On file: 7 visits since July 2016 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was July 24, 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 3 findings

Monitoring visit · July 17, 2025

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(2) · Violation corrected

Records and Reports

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 533713 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · July 11, 2024

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(m) · 406.9(t)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 533713 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 11, 2022

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(29) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 533713 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Aug 2020 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · August 10, 2020

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(3) · 406.8(a)(20) · 406.8(a)(23)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 533713 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Aug 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · August 6, 2019

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f) through (g) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f) · 406.8(g)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 533713 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · July 25, 2019

Cooperation with the Department

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(a) through (b) · Violation substantiated

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26(a) · 406.26(b)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 533713 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2016 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · July 11, 2016

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(32) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 533713 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: 6459 S Albany Ave
License: license issued (il)

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All checked July 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 "GARDINER, YOLANDA L" under Provider Name and 60629 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 533713).

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.