Palatine · Licensed center
Bumblebee Academy
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 131 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 2 licensing inspections since January 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Oct 9, 2025Nothing cited
- Jan 17, 2025Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected twice had at least one: 87% of 83.
How all 83 Chicago-area centers inspected twice compare
Of the 83 Chicago-area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None13%This center
- 1 of 227%
- Both60%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- October 9, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since January 2025 — both 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.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 656-6814
- Address
- 415 S Creekside Dr, Palatine, 60074
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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 "BUMBLEBEE ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60074 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 629398).
- 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 "BUMBLEBEE ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60074 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 629398).
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.