Chicago · Licensed center
Bernard Horwich J.C.C. Preschool
A center in Chicago, licensed for 136 children. The state cited something at 8 of 8 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Large center. Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 8 of 8 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- November 17, 2025
- On file
- 8 visits since November 2012 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 17, 2025. 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.
Nov 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · November 17, 2025
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · November 11, 2022
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2021 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · November 22, 2021
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) through (r)(2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) · 407.370(f)(2) · 407.370(r)(2)
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · October 10, 2019
Personnel Records
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(3)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2017 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · October 17, 2017
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) · Violation corrected
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2014 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · October 6, 2014
Personnel Records
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) through (2) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(2)
Health Requirements for Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) through (5) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) · 407.310(a)(5)
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d) · Violation corrected
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2013 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · November 4, 2013
Personnel Records
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(6)
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2012 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · November 1, 2012
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) through (i)(4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · 407.250(i)(4)
Health Requirements for Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · 407.310(a)(6)
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(e)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 002330 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7735165881
- Address
- 3003 W Touhy Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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All checked July 2026.
State record
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BERNARD HORWICH J.C.C. PRESCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60645 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 002330).