Chicago · Licensed center
Childrens Creative Center
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 20 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 its 1 licensing inspection, in February 2024.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Feb 20, 20241 citation
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d)
The state cited rules at this center's 1 inspection. Most Chicago-area centers inspected once had the same: 81% of 53.
How all 53 Chicago-area centers inspected once compare
Of the 53 Chicago-area centers the state inspected once, whether that inspection cited a rule:
- No19%
- Yes81%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- February 20, 2024
- On file
- 1 visit, February 2024 — it cited findings
- Fixed?
- Correction was due February 20, 2024. 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.
Feb 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · February 20, 2024
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 618384 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 270-4550
- Address
- 2046 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, 60618
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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 "CHILDRENS CREATIVE CENTER" under Provider Name and 60618 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 618384).
- 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 "CHILDRENS CREATIVE CENTER" under Provider Name and 60618 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 618384).
Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; 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.