Plainfield · Licensed center
Cornerstone Early Learning Center
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 58 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 2 of its 5 licensing inspections since February 2015.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Feb 5, 2025Nothing cited
- Jan 23, 2024Nothing cited
- Mar 16, 2023Nothing cited
Jan 12, 20221 citation
Outdoor Play Area
Outdoor Play Area
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(l)(1)
Feb 11, 20152 citations
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)
The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 5 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 5 times had more: 87% of 127 had rules cited at 3 or more.
How all 127 Chicago-area centers inspected 5 times compare
Of the 127 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 5 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- 1 of 56%
- 2 of 56%This center
- 3 of 512%
- 4 of 528%
- All 547%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- February 5, 2025
- On file
- 5 visits since February 2015 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 11, 2022. 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.
Jan 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · January 12, 2022
Outdoor Play Area
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.390(l)(1) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 494697 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2015 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · February 11, 2015
Personnel Records
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) through (4) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4)
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 494697 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (815) 439-9886
- Address
- 26359 W 135th St, Plainfield, 60544
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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 "CORNERSTONE EARLY LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60544 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 494697).
- 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 "CORNERSTONE EARLY LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60544 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 494697).
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.