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 North Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook North 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	511	317	62.0%	278	45	16.2%	789	362	45.9%
2020	544	342	62.9%	342	76	22.2%	886	418	47.2%
2021	546	359	65.8%	345	74	21.4%	891	433	48.6%
2022	523	325	62.1%	292	82	28.1%	815	407	49.9%
2023	394	248	62.9%	261	78	29.9%	655	326	49.8%
2024	378	242	64.0%	214	62	29.0%	592	304	51.4%
2025	346	227	65.6%	156	57	36.5%	502	284	56.6%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook North Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook North 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	145	67	46.2%	113	5	4.4%	258	72	27.9%
	Kinship	366	250	68.3%	165	40	24.2%	531	290	54.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	511	317	62.0%	278	45	16.2%	789	362	45.9%
2020	Traditional	127	64	50.4%	106	7	6.6%	233	71	30.5%
	Kinship	417	278	66.7%	236	69	29.2%	653	347	53.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	544	342	62.9%	342	76	22.2%	886	418	47.2%
2021	Traditional	126	66	52.4%	99	8	8.1%	225	74	32.9%
	Kinship	420	293	69.8%	246	66	26.8%	666	359	53.9%
	ALL CHILDREN	546	359	65.8%	345	74	21.4%	891	433	48.6%
2022	Traditional	123	63	51.2%	60	0	0.0%	183	63	34.4%
	Kinship	400	262	65.5%	232	82	35.3%	632	344	54.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	523	325	62.1%	292	82	28.1%	815	407	49.9%
2023	Traditional	97	48	49.5%	43	0	0.0%	140	48	34.3%
	Kinship	297	200	67.3%	218	78	35.8%	515	278	54.0%
	ALL CHILDREN	394	248	62.9%	261	78	29.9%	655	326	49.8%
2024	Traditional	94	53	56.4%	45	0	0.0%	139	53	38.1%
	Kinship	284	189	66.5%	169	62	36.7%	453	251	55.4%
	ALL CHILDREN	378	242	64.0%	214	62	29.0%	592	304	51.4%
2025	Traditional	85	47	55.3%	23	0	0.0%	108	47	43.5%
	Kinship	261	180	69.0%	133	57	42.9%	394	237	60.2%
	ALL CHILDREN	346	227	65.6%	156	57	36.5%	502	284	56.6%