Chicago · Licensed center
Fantasy Island Schools For Kids
At a glance
- Medium play-based 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 all 4 of its licensing inspections since July 2013.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Apr 27, 20261 citation
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)
Apr 5, 20231 citation
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)
Mar 19, 20182 citations
Health Requirements for Children
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)
Jul 1, 20131 citation
Health Requirements for Children
Health Requirements for Children
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3)
The state cited rules at all 4 of this center's inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had the same: 59% of 117.
How all 117 Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times compare
Of the 117 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 4 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None2%
- 1 of 44%
- 2 of 413%
- 3 of 422%
- All 459%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- April 27, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since July 2013 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 27, 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.
Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 27, 2026
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 483511 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 5, 2023
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 483511 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2018 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · March 19, 2018
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 483511 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2013 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · July 1, 2013
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 483511 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
A day here
- Meals
- Three freshly cooked meals provided daily at no additional cost
Outdoors
- Outdoors
- Daily outdoor time with guided exploration, weather observation, and sensory play
How they teach
Play-based, nature and outdoor and bilingual
“Time spent in our nature-based play areas is not recess—it is research.”
Details
- Phone
- (773) 775-3125
- Address
- 6100 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, 60646
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How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 fantasyislandschoolsforkids.com
State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
A day here
- Meals, Outdoors — Checked August 2026 fantasyislandschoolsforkids.com
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "FANTASY ISLAND SCHOOLS FOR KIDS" under Provider Name and 60646 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 483511).
- Website — Checked August 2026 fantasyislandschoolsforkids.com
- 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 "FANTASY ISLAND SCHOOLS FOR KIDS" under Provider Name and 60646 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 483511).
- Ages they serve — Checked August 2026 fantasyislandschoolsforkids.com
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.