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At a glance

  • Medium center, licensed for 50 children.

What to know

License: 18 months to 6 years (state).

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 all 3 of its licensing inspections since November 2021.

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Licensing inspections

  • Dec 3, 20251 citation
    • Personnel Records

      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

  • Dec 4, 20241 citation
    • Personnel Records

      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

  • Nov 8, 20212 citations
    • Personnel Records

      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

    • Nutrition and Meal Service

      • Nutrition and Meal Service

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(l)(1)

The state cited rules at all 3 of this center's inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had the same: 57% of 110.

How all 110 Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times compare

Of the 110 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None11%
  • 1 of 38%
  • 2 of 324%
  • All 357%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
December 3, 2025
On file
3 visits since November 2021 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was January 2, 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.

Dec 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · December 3, 2025

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 591477 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · December 4, 2024

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 591477 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Nov 2021 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · November 8, 2021

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected

Nutrition and Meal Service

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(l)(1) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 591477 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(773) 657-3898
Address
7225 W Touhy Ave, Chicago, 60631
Ownership
For-profit

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State record

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.

Details

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.

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