Chicago · Licensed center
Bright Horizons
A center in Chicago, licensed for 59 children. The state cited something at 6 of 7 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Medium center. Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
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: 6 of 7 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
- May 27, 2025
- On file
- 7 visits since June 2016 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 29, 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.
May 2025 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · May 27, 2025
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(8) through (f) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(8) · 407.100(f)
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 532655 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2024 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · April 26, 2024
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) through (8) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · 407.100(c)(8)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
Napping and Sleeping
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(c) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 532655 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2022 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · April 28, 2022
Organization and Administration
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(l) · Violation corrected
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 532655 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · March 11, 2021
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 532655 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2020 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · June 18, 2020
Application for Renewal of License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.55(f) · Violation corrected
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 532655 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2016 Monitoring visit 8 findings
Monitoring visit · June 3, 2016
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6)
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) through (e)(3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) · 407.260(e)(3)
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.60(g) · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(b) · Violation corrected
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(4) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 532655 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 3128677100
- Address
- 1425 N Dayton St
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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Sources and dates
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All checked August 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "BRIGHT HORIZONS" under Provider Name and 60642 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 532655).