Chicago · Licensed family home
Watkins, Lisa
- 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 4 licensing inspections since May 2016.
Of the 408 Chicago-area family homes with 4 licensing inspections, 20% had rules cited at 3 of them, as this home did. 43% had rules cited at all 4, 6% at none.
Licensing inspections
Oct 2, 20244 citations
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(n)
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(5)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(i)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(1)
May 24, 20191 citation
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(n)
May 24, 20161 citation
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
- January 22, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since May 2016 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 18, 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.
Oct 2024 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · October 2, 2024
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(i) through (n) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.12(i) · 406.12(n)
General Requirements for Day Care Homes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.8(a)(1) · Violation corrected
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(t)(5) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 440870 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2019 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 24, 2019
Characteristics and Qualifications of the Day Care Family
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.9(n) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 440870 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2016 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 24, 2016
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 406.6(k) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 440870 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
- 12456 S Michigan Ave
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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All checked July 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 "WATKINS, LISA" under Provider Name and 60628 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 440870).
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.