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 South Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook South 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	526	309	58.7%	277	77	27.8%	803	386	48.1%
2020	610	375	61.5%	375	113	30.1%	985	488	49.5%
2021	654	426	65.1%	423	115	27.2%	1,077	541	50.2%
2022	585	389	66.5%	395	103	26.1%	980	492	50.2%
2023	516	308	59.7%	340	83	24.4%	856	391	45.7%
2024	514	316	61.5%	245	54	22.0%	759	370	48.7%
2025	404	255	63.1%	171	46	26.9%	575	301	52.3%

| All Children | Placement Type |

Cook South Sub-Region		1 or 2 Siblings in Care			3 or More Siblings in Care			Total Children
Cook South 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	163	80	49.1%	81	9	11.1%	244	89	36.5%
	Kinship	363	229	63.1%	196	68	34.7%	559	297	53.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	526	309	58.7%	277	77	27.8%	803	386	48.1%
2020	Traditional	170	88	51.8%	102	6	5.9%	272	94	34.6%
	Kinship	440	287	65.2%	273	107	39.2%	713	394	55.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	610	375	61.5%	375	113	30.1%	985	488	49.5%
2021	Traditional	165	77	46.7%	120	12	10.0%	285	89	31.2%
	Kinship	489	349	71.4%	303	103	34.0%	792	452	57.1%
	ALL CHILDREN	654	426	65.1%	423	115	27.2%	1,077	541	50.2%
2022	Traditional	176	87	49.4%	118	12	10.2%	294	99	33.7%
	Kinship	409	302	73.8%	277	91	32.9%	686	393	57.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	585	389	66.5%	395	103	26.1%	980	492	50.2%
2023	Traditional	142	62	43.7%	87	12	13.8%	229	74	32.3%
	Kinship	374	246	65.8%	253	71	28.1%	627	317	50.6%
	ALL CHILDREN	516	308	59.7%	340	83	24.4%	856	391	45.7%
2024	Traditional	134	46	34.3%	62	7	11.3%	196	53	27.0%
	Kinship	380	270	71.1%	183	47	25.7%	563	317	56.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	514	316	61.5%	245	54	22.0%	759	370	48.7%
2025	Traditional	100	46	46.0%	51	8	15.7%	151	54	35.8%
	Kinship	304	209	68.8%	120	38	31.7%	424	247	58.3%
	ALL CHILDREN	404	255	63.1%	171	46	26.9%	575	301	52.3%