Chicago · Licensed center
Bright Horizons At Illinois Medical Dist
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 146 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited no rules at any of its 3 licensing inspections since March 2022.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Apr 24, 2025Nothing cited
- May 12, 2023Nothing cited
- Mar 31, 2022Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had at least one: 89% of 110.
How all 110 Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times compare
Of the 110 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None11%This center
- 1 of 38%
- 2 of 324%
- All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- April 24, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since March 2022 — all of them cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file.
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.
What staff are paid
- Child Care Teacher - Illinois Medical District
- $20.75 to $25.35 an hourJob posting, October 2026
Details
- Phone
- (872) 710-0860
- Address
- 1851 W Harrison St, Chicago, 60612
- Chain
- Bright Horizons
- Owner
- Public shareholders (NYSE: BFAM)
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What staff are paid
- Child Care Teacher - Illinois Medical District — Checked October 2026 careers.brighthorizons.com
State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BRIGHT HORIZONS AT ILLINOIS MEDICAL DIST" under Provider Name and 60612 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 598736).
- Website, Chain — Checked October 2026 brighthorizons.com
- Ages on the license — Checked November 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BRIGHT HORIZONS AT ILLINOIS MEDICAL DIST" under Provider Name and 60612 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 598736).
- Owner — Checked October 2026 sec.gov/…/bfam-20251231.htm
Bright Horizons is a public company. Its annual report to the SEC for 2025 (Form 10-K, filed February 2026) lists its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BFAM. sec.gov
Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.