Elmhurst · Licensed center
Elmhurst Montessori Preschool
A center in Elmhurst, licensed for 61 children. The state cited something at 6 of 7 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6). Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Medium center. Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
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: 6 of 7 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
- November 13, 2025
- On file
- 7 visits since December 2020 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was November 4, 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.
Oct 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · October 16, 2024
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 593235 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 27, 2023
Cited: CCASEC4
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 593235 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2022 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · September 22, 2022
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation substantiated
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 593235 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 4, 2022
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 593235 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2021 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · November 4, 2021
Medications
4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(b)(1) through (e) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(b)(1) · 407.360(c)(2) · 407.360(c)(3) · 407.360(e)
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 593235 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2020 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · December 18, 2020
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.60(g) · Violation corrected
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(f) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 593235 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 6305011662
- Address
- 367 S Spring Rd
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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Sources and dates
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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 "ELMHURST MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60126 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 593235).