Libertyville · Licensed center
Crossways Preschool/Celebration Childcar
A center in Libertyville, licensed for 202 children. The state cited something at 7 of 10 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Large center. Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 7 of 10 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- January 15, 2026
- On file
- 10 visits since April 2013 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 14, 2026. 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 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · January 15, 2026
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 195612 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · February 3, 2025
Medications
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(b)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 195612 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · May 25, 2023
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 195612 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2023 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · April 19, 2023
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d) · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 195612 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2023 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · January 19, 2023
Health Requirements for Children
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · 407.310(a)(5) · 407.310(a)(6)
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 195612 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2017 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · June 21, 2017
Daily Arrival and Departure of Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 195612 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2013 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · April 29, 2013
Health Requirements for Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) · 407.310(a)(6)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 195612 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 8473676208
- Address
- 1151 N Saint Marys Rd
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked August 2026.
State record
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "CELEBRATION CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOL CENT" under Provider Name and 60048 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 195612).