Deerfield · Licensed center
Bright Horizons At Lake Cook
A center in Deerfield, licensed for 162 children. The state cited something at 5 of 9 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: 5 of 9 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
- August 21, 2025
- On file
- 9 visits since October 2016 — 4 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was August 4, 2022. 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.
Oct 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · October 8, 2024
Organization and Administration
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(m) · Violation corrected
Program Requirements for All Ages
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(i) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 526010 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2022 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · July 21, 2022
Guidance and Discipline
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(3) through (6)(e) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(c)(3) · 407.270(c)(6)(e)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 526010 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2018 Monitoring visit 7 findings
Monitoring visit · July 24, 2018
General Requirements for Personnel
5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) through (8) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(c)(7) · 407.100(c)(8)
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(b) · Violation corrected
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 526010 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2018 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · March 30, 2018
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
Qualifications for Early Childhood Teachers and School-age Workers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.140(c)(1) · Violation corrected
Substitutes
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.170(b) · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 526010 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Oct 2016 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · October 14, 2016
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(1) · 407.250(i)(3)
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f) · 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 526010 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 8473749000
- Address
- 1650 Lake Cook Rd
- License
- license issued (il)
- Chain
- Bright HorizonsSource: brighthorizons.com
- Owner
- Public shareholders (NYSE: BFAM)Bright Horizons is a public company that reports to the SEC. Its stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange as BFAM. sec.gov
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State record
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 · sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BRIGHT HORIZONS AT LAKE COOK" under Provider Name and 60015 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 526010).
- Chain — Checked September 2026 · brighthorizons.com
- Owner — Checked September 2026 · sec.gov