CFRC: Data Center: Tables

Definition: Of all children in kinship or traditional foster homes at the end of the fiscal year, the percentage that was placed with their siblings.

Denominator: The number of children in kinship or traditional foster homes at the end of the fiscal year who had siblings in substitute care. Siblings are defined as children who belong to a common family based on the ID number of the family.

Numerator: The number of children placed in the same foster home as all of their siblings in substitute care at the end of the fiscal year.

Exclusions

Youth aged 18 and older are excluded. Age is calculated as of the last day of each fiscal year (June 30).
Children with no siblings in substitute care are excluded.

A Note on Placement Type
Placement type was defined by two fields in the database: service type code and placement type code. In defining each placement type, the service type code was given priority over the placement type code. If a service type code was not present, placement type code was used to define a child’s placement type.

A Note on Legal Spell
A legal spell was defined as the period a child is in DCFS legal custody during an open child placement case. In other words, it is the time period that a child legally enters substitute care until the child legally exits care. Using a comprehensive list of court hearings regarding the child’s legal custody history, a table with records of the time (spell) during which a child is under DCFS custody was created. The legal status effective dates and the legal status code were used to determine the spell.

The data used to compute this measure come from the DCFS Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and these data were extracted on September 30, 2025. All indicators are calculated based on the state fiscal year, which spans the 12-month period from July 1 to June 30.

A Note on Totals
The per-year totals for this measure ("ALL CHILDREN") reflect the total numbers of children with valid values for the breakdown being viewed. Since counts may be culled from records missing geographic, demographic or placement type information, totals between breakdowns may not be identical. For example, adding counts for all age groups for a given year may not produce the same result as adding races, since there may be missing races and/or ages in the population.

A Note on Small Populations
To protect privacy and ensure statistical reliability, when the applicable population is between 1 to 5, the value is displayed as "≤ 5" and the outcome data is masked. If the applicable population is zero, the value is displayed as "0" and the outcome is also masked.

A Note on Race
If the child’s ethnicity was coded as any of the following Hispanic origin, their race/ethnicity was coded as Latinx regardless of their race code: Hispanic South American, Hispanic Cuban, Hispanic Mexican, Hispanic Puerto Rican, Hispanic Spanish Descent, Hispanic Dominican, Hispanic Central American, and Hispanic Other. If the child’s ethnicity was non-Latinx and they had more than one race code, then their race/ethnicity was defined as multiracial. If the child’s ethnicity was non-Latinx and the value of the race is Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders, or multiracial, it was coded as "Other." If the value of primary race was "could not be verified," "unknown," "declined to identify," or missing (null), it was treated as missing and excluded when indicators are reported by race/ethnicity.

End of Year Placement with Siblings

Of all children in kinship or traditional foster homes at the end of the year, the percentage that was placed with siblings.

Change Measure

Data extracted on September 30, 2025.

Illinois Region Sub-Region County

Cook North Cook Central Cook South Aurora Rockford Champaign Peoria Springfield East St. Louis Marion

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook Central Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook Central Sub-Region		Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Total Children	Placed with All Sibs	%
2019	440	274	62.3%	320	70	21.9%	760	344	45.3%
2020	587	363	61.8%	347	75	21.6%	934	438	46.9%
2021	639	395	61.8%	360	87	24.2%	999	482	48.2%
2022	675	393	58.2%	345	74	21.4%	1,020	467	45.8%
2023	612	338	55.2%	390	82	21.0%	1,002	420	41.9%
2024	517	275	53.2%	268	59	22.0%	785	334	42.5%
2025	387	231	59.7%	225	89	39.6%	612	320	52.3%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook Central Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook Central Sub-Region		Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Children with this # of Sibs	Placed with All Sibs	%	Total Children	Placed with All Sibs	%
2019	Traditional	124	73	58.9%	98	4	4.1%	222	77	34.7%
	Kinship	316	201	63.6%	222	66	29.7%	538	267	49.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	440	274	62.3%	320	70	21.9%	760	344	45.3%
2020	Traditional	136	64	47.1%	96	0	0.0%	232	64	27.6%
	Kinship	451	299	66.3%	251	75	29.9%	702	374	53.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	587	363	61.8%	347	75	21.6%	934	438	46.9%
2021	Traditional	162	82	50.6%	90	8	8.9%	252	90	35.7%
	Kinship	477	313	65.6%	270	79	29.3%	747	392	52.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	639	395	61.8%	360	87	24.2%	999	482	48.2%
2022	Traditional	180	87	48.3%	81	2	2.5%	261	89	34.1%
	Kinship	495	306	61.8%	264	72	27.3%	759	378	49.8%
	ALL CHILDREN	675	393	58.2%	345	74	21.4%	1,020	467	45.8%
2023	Traditional	181	79	43.6%	94	6	6.4%	275	85	30.9%
	Kinship	431	259	60.1%	296	76	25.7%	727	335	46.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	612	338	55.2%	390	82	21.0%	1,002	420	41.9%
2024	Traditional	157	58	36.9%	81	0	0.0%	238	58	24.4%
	Kinship	360	217	60.3%	187	59	31.6%	547	276	50.5%
	ALL CHILDREN	517	275	53.2%	268	59	22.0%	785	334	42.5%
2025	Traditional	101	42	41.6%	65	3	4.6%	166	45	27.1%
	Kinship	286	189	66.1%	160	86	53.8%	446	275	61.7%
	ALL CHILDREN	387	231	59.7%	225	89	39.6%	612	320	52.3%