Mundelein · Licensed family home

Medina, Estela

What the state has found

The state cited rules at its 1 licensing inspection, in January 2026.

Of the 308 Chicago-area family homes with 1 licensing inspection, 75% had rules cited at it, as this home did. 25% had none cited.

Licensing inspections

Jan 26, 20263 citations

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(8)

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(a)

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(4)

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
January 26, 2026
On file
1 visit, January 2026 — it cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due February 26, 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.

Jan 2026 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · January 26, 2026

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(4) through (8) · Violation corrected on site · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(4) · 406.8(a)(8)

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(a) · Violation corrected on site

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 636944 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

2247232415

Address
722 Longfellow Ln
License
license issued (il)

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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 "MEDINA, ESTELA" under Provider Name and 60060 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 636944).

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.