Hillside · Licensed family home

Howard, Karen C

What the state has found

The state cited rules at all 3 of its licensing inspections since March 2010.

Of the 423 Chicago-area family homes with 3 licensing inspections, 50% had rules cited at all 3, as this home did. 13% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Jan 14, 20253 citations

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(2)

  • Nutrition and Meals

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17(a)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f)

Dec 4, 20232 citations

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

Mar 2, 20102 citations

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
January 14, 2025
On file
3 visits since March 2010 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was January 31, 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.

Jan 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · January 14, 2025

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

Nutrition and Meals

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.17(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 426188 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · December 4, 2023

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(21) through (29) · Violation corrected

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 426188 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Mar 2010 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · March 2, 2010

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(2) · Violation corrected

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 426188 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

7089540682

Address
244 N Elm St
License
license issued (il)

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Sources and dates

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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 "HOWARD, KAREN C" under Provider Name and 60162 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 426188).

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.