Plainfield · Licensed family home

Ward, Elsa M

What the state has found

The state cited rules at 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since April 2025.

Of the 394 Chicago-area family homes with 2 licensing inspections, 21% had rules cited at 1 of them, as this home did. 61% had rules cited at both, 18% at neither.

Licensing inspections

Jan 13, 2026No rules cited
Apr 10, 20251 citation

  • Health, Medical Care and Safety

    89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.14(c)

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
January 13, 2026
On file
2 visits since April 2025 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due May 12, 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 2026 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · April 10, 2025

Health, Medical Care and Safety

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 633770 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

2245182106

Address
21432 W Georgetown Dr
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 9, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "WARD, ELSA M" under Provider Name and 60544 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 633770).

Small means licensed for 2 to 7 children, among Chicago-area’s 3,345 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Mid-size is 8; larger is 9 to 12.