Chicago · Licensed center
Glo Academy
A center in Chicago, licensed for 94 children. 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: 2 of 2 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits). Two 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
- October 31, 2025
- On file
- 2 visits since December 2024 — both cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 1, 2025. 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 2025 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · October 31, 2025
Program Requirements for All Ages
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(d)(7) through (f)(5) · Violation corrected on site · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(d)(7) · 407.200(f)(5)
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation corrected on site
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(r)(3) · Violation corrected on site
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 622616 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2024 Monitoring visit 10 findings
Monitoring visit · December 16, 2024
General Requirements for Personnel
5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (f) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(c)(7) · 407.100(e) · 407.100(f)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation substantiated
Transportation
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.280(d) · Violation substantiated
Napping and Sleeping
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1)(e) · Violation substantiated
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 622616 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7738965569
- Address
- 10009 S Yates Blvd
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 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 "GLO ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60617 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 622616).