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Happy Days - Day Care

At a glance

  • Medium center, licensed for 76 children.

What to know

License: 2 years to 6 years (state).

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 its 1 licensing inspection, in July 2024.

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Licensing inspections

  • Jul 24, 20242 citations
    • Personnel Records
      • Personnel Records

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)

    • Medications
      • Medications

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(c)(2)

The state cited rules at this center's 1 inspection. Most Chicago-area centers inspected once had the same: 81% of 53.

How all 53 Chicago-area centers inspected once compare

Of the 53 Chicago-area centers the state inspected once, whether that inspection cited a rule:

  • No19%
  • Yes81%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
July 24, 2024
On file
1 visit, July 2024 — it cited findings
Fixed?
Correction was due August 23, 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.

Jul 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · July 24, 2024

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected

Medications

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(c)(2) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 427805 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone
(708) 496-2457
Address
6115 S Archer Rd, Summit, 60501

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State record

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

Details

  • Phone, Address, License — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "HAPPY DAYS - DAY CARE" under Provider Name and 60501 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 427805).
  • 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 "HAPPY DAYS - DAY CARE" under Provider Name and 60501 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 427805).

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.

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