Mt Prospect · Licensed center
Children's Land At Mount Prospect
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 178 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 4 licensing inspections since April 2021.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Aug 26, 2025Nothing cited
- Aug 27, 2024Nothing cited
- Oct 19, 2021Nothing cited
- Apr 24, 2021Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 4 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had at least one: 98% 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%This center
- 1 of 44%
- 2 of 413%
- 3 of 422%
- All 459%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- August 26, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since April 2021 — 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.
Details
- Phone
- (847) 873-1136
- Address
- 621 N Main St, Mt Prospect, 60056
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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 "CHILDREN'S LAND AT MOUNT PROSPECT" under Provider Name and 60056 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 591578).
- 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 "CHILDREN'S LAND AT MOUNT PROSPECT" under Provider Name and 60056 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 591578).
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.