Chicago · Licensed center

Helen Lucy Child Care Center

Small center, licensed for 24 children.
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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.

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: 3 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.

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: July 10, 2017
On file: 3 visits since July 2014 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was August 10, 2017. 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 2017 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · July 10, 2017

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected

Cited: CCASEC4

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

Cited: FHSEC305

0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 478687 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2016 Monitoring visit 15 findings

Monitoring visit · July 25, 2016

Organization and Administration

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(e)(1) · 407.70(e)(2) · 407.70(e)(3)

Personnel Records

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(6)

Guidance and Discipline

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) through (c) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) · 407.270(b) · 407.270(c)

Health Requirements for Children

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · 407.310(a)(5) · 407.310(a)(6)

General Requirements for Personnel

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(c)(6)

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(h) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 478687 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2014 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · July 7, 2014

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2)(a) through (e) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(2)(a) · 407.250(i)(2)(e)

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 478687 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

7735123451

Address: 5801 N Northwest Hwy
License: pending renewal application (rn)

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All checked July 2026.

State record

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Details

Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "HELEN LUCY CHILD CARE CENTER" under Provider Name and 60631 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 478687).