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Fourth Church Day School

fourthchurchdayschool.org

At a glance

  • Small play-based center, licensed for 32 children.
  • Tuition $625 to $1,260 a month, half day; the age it is for isn’t stated. See costs

What to know

License: 2 years to 5 years (state). They serve: ages 1 to 5 years (their website).

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 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since September 2018.

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Licensing inspections

  • Dec 8, 20231 citation
    • General Requirements for Personnel

      • General Requirements for Personnel

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)

  • Sep 25, 2020Nothing cited
  • Sep 18, 20181 citation
    • General Requirements for Personnel

      • General Requirements for Personnel

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)

The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had more: 57% of 110 had rules cited at all 3.

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%This center
  • All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
December 8, 2023
On file
3 visits since September 2018 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was January 7, 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.

Dec 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · December 8, 2023

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020373 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Sep 2020 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Sep 2018 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · September 18, 2018

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 020373 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

What it costs

$625 to $1,260 a month

Chicago-area comparison hidden until they say which age this price is for.

Application fee
$0

How they teach

Play-based

“Staying true to its play-based philosophy, the Day School has grown from 1 class of preschoolers to 5+ programs with multiple classes”

Details

Phone
(312) 640-2579
Address
126 East Chestnut Street, Chicago, 60611
Established
1968

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How they teach

What it costs

State record

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

Details

Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; 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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