Countryside · Licensed center
Creative Academy
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 57 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 April 2024.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Apr 3, 20244 citations
Organization and Administration
Organization and Administration
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(2)
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
- April 3, 2024
- On file
- 1 visit, April 2024 — it cited findings
- Fixed?
- Correction was due May 3, 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.
Apr 2024 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · April 3, 2024
Personnel Records
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) through (3) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3)
Organization and Administration
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e) · Violation corrected
Diapering and Toileting Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.340(a)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 620854 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (708) 937-9085
- Address
- 6535 Joliet Rd, Countryside, 60525
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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 "CREATIVE ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60525 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 620854).
- 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 "CREATIVE ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60525 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 620854).
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.