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Avondale Loving Care LLC

avondale-lc.com

At a glance

  • Small center, licensed for 35 children.

What to know

License: 15 months to 5 years (state). They serve: 15 months to 5 years (their website).

The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.

What the state has found

The state cited rules at both of its licensing inspections since April 2025.

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Licensing inspections

  • Apr 14, 20261 citation
    • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

      • Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b)

  • Apr 14, 20251 citation
    • General Requirements for Personnel

      • General Requirements for Personnel

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(2)

The state cited rules at both of this center's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected twice had the same: 60% of 83.

How all 83 Chicago-area centers inspected twice compare

Of the 83 Chicago-area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None13%
  • 1 of 227%
  • Both60%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
April 14, 2026
On file
2 visits since April 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was May 18, 2026. 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.

Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · April 14, 2026

Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 627591 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · April 14, 2025

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(2) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 627591 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(773) 657-0445
Address
3420 N Elston Ave, Chicago, 60618
Ownership
For-profit

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.

Details

Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; large is 119 to 487.

The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.

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