Chicago · Licensed center
Bright Horizons At South Wabash
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 73 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 rules at all 4 of its licensing inspections since July 2022.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Jul 29, 20261 citation
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(4)
Sep 11, 20251 citation
Background Checks for Personnel
Background Checks for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110
Jul 24, 20233 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(1)
Jul 7, 20222 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(1)
The state cited rules at all 4 of this center's inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had the same: 59% of 117.
How all 117 Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times compare
Of the 117 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 4 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None2%
- 1 of 44%
- 2 of 413%
- 3 of 422%
- All 459%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- July 29, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since July 2022 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 11, 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.
Jul 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · July 29, 2026
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(4) · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 602417 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 11, 2025
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 602417 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · July 24, 2023
Personnel Records
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) through (e)(1) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(e)(1)
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 602417 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 7, 2022
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 602417 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (312) 776-2908
- Address
- 321 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, 60604
- Chain
- Bright Horizons
- Owner
- Public shareholders (NYSE: BFAM)
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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 SOUTH WABASH" under Provider Name and 60604 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 602417).
- 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 SOUTH WABASH" under Provider Name and 60604 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 602417).
- 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
Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; 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.