Chicago · Licensed family home

Ortega, Sara

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 4 of its 5 licensing inspections since June 2015.

Of the 353 Chicago-area family homes with 5 licensing inspections, 22% had rules cited at 4 of them, as this home did. 43% had rules cited at all 5, 1% at none.

Licensing inspections

May 21, 20251 citation

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(28)

Apr 25, 2024No rules cited
May 31, 20191 citation

  • General Requirements for Day Care Homes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(f)

Jul 28, 20162 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)(4)

Jun 12, 201510 citations

  • Substitutes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.11(a)

  • Substitutes

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.11(c)

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(r)

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(2)

6 more from this inspection

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(d)(3)

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c)

  • Records and Reports

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(e)

  • Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(i)

  • Provisions Pertaining to the License

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
May 21, 2025
On file
5 visits since June 2015 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was May 30, 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.

May 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · May 21, 2025

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(28) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 377578 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2024 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
May 2019 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · May 31, 2019

General Requirements for Day Care Homes

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 377578 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2016 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · July 28, 2016

Health, Medical Care and Safety

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(2) through (4) · Violation corrected

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 377578 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2015 Monitoring visit 10 findings

Monitoring visit · June 12, 2015

Records and Reports

5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) through (r) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c) · 406.24(d)(2) · 406.24(d)(3) · 406.24(e) · 406.24(r)

Substitutes

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.11(a) through (c) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.11(a) · 406.11(c)

Provisions Pertaining to the License

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

Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family

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

Health, Medical Care and Safety

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)(3) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 377578 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

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Address
4512 W 59th St
License
license issued (il)

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "ORTEGA, SARA" under Provider Name and 60629 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 377578).
  • License — Checked October 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "ORTEGA, SARA" under Provider Name and 60629 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 377578).

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.