Adoption

Community

• Department of Children and Family Services
  760 Peace Rd (field office)
  DeKalb, IL 60115
  815-787-5300
  Services: Placement of special needs children with families, foster care training, processes placement of children for adoption, adopted children interested in information on birth families

Surrounding Communities

• Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
  1001 E. Touhy Avenue, Suite 50.
  Desplaines, IL 60018
  847-635-6764
  email : info@issi.org
  Services: Recruits and trains families in foster care, counseling services, works with foster children to stay in home, subsidized housing services
• Children's Home & Aid Society 
  125 South Wacker Dr.
  14th Floor
  Chicago, IL  60606
  312-424-0200
  Services: State-wide offices, provides adoption information, counseling for teen and young adult pregnancy, post adoptive, foster care, services for adults who have been adopted, Healthy Family Illinois, parenting education
• Catholic Charities
  1700 N. Farnsworth Ave, Suite #28
  Aurora, IL 60505
  Adoption Hotline: 1-800-572-2390
  Jamie Weigand - 630-820-3220 or 630-820-3226
  Services: Open, special need, and international adoption, child welfare agency, foster care in association with DCFS
• Adoption Information Center of Illinois
  120 W. Madison, Suite 800
  Chicago, IL 60602
  312-346-1516
  Services: Primarily for prospective adoptive parents; affiliated with the Department of Children and Family Services
• Family Resource Center
  5828 North Clark St.
  Chicago, IL  60660
  773-334-2300
  Services: Family Resource Center has worked with thousands of prospective adoptive parents who wanted to adopt - and - men and women who were thinking about placing children for adoption.   
• The Cradle Society
  2049 Ridge Ave.
  Evanston, IL 60201
  24 hr hotline number : 800-272-3534
  Text : 224-489-1369 
  Services: Confidential counseling, child placement in two-parent home, 24-hour answering service
• Lifelink International Adoption
  Spring Creek United Church of Christ
  4500 Spring Creek Road
  Rockford, Illinois 61114
  630-521-8261
  Services: Domestic and international adoptions