Park Forest · Licensed family home
Simpkins Primer, Brenda
- 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 3 of its 5 licensing inspections since October 2019.
Of the 354 Chicago-area family homes with 5 licensing inspections, 17% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this home did. 43% had rules cited at all 5, 1% at none.
Licensing inspections
Nov 6, 20242 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(6)
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(j)
Aug 3, 20211 citation
Cooperation with the Department
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26
Oct 31, 20195 citations
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19)
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)(23)
Records and Reports
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(c)
1 more from this inspection
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(b)(3)
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- November 6, 2024
- On file
- 5 visits since October 2019 — 2 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 6, 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.
Nov 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · November 6, 2024
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(6) · Violation substantiated
Records and Reports
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.24(j) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 573322 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 3, 2021
Cooperation with the Department
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.26 · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 573322 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2019 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · October 31, 2019
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19) through (23) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(19) · 406.8(a)(20) · 406.8(a)(23)
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(c) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 573322 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
- 179 Westwood Dr
- 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 "SIMPKINS PRIMER, BRENDA" under Provider Name and 60466 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 573322).
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.