Chicago · Licensed center
Fourth Church Day School
- Small play-based center, licensed for 32 children.
What these mean, and where they come from
Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; large is 119 to 487.
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”In their words, August 2026.fourthchurchdayschool.org
One of 70 Chicago-area providers that describe a play-based approach, out of 129 that describe any approach at all.
Who cares for your child
Ratio not published
One staff is named on their site, with no start year given.
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.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 2 of 3 cited something
Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits. Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
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
- 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 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.
How the comparison is built
Routine visits: across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
Details
- Website
- fourthchurchdayschool.org
- Address
- 126 East Chestnut Street
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
- Ages they serve
- ages 1 to 5 years
- Established
- 1968
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How they teach
- Approach — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
Who cares for your child
What it costs
- Monthly tuition — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
- Application fee — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
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 — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "FOURTH CHURCH DAY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60611 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 020373).
- Website — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org
- Ages they serve, Established — Checked August 2026 fourthchurchdayschool.org