Hoffman Est · Licensed center
Hoff. Est. Pk. Dist. Willow Rec. Ctr.
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 40 children.
What to know
The license is the range the state allows. It does not say which ages have openings.
What the state has found
The state cited no rules at any of its 3 licensing inspections since January 2023.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Mar 3, 2026Nothing cited
- Jan 28, 2025Nothing cited
- Jan 18, 2023Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had at least one: 89% of 110.
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%This center
- 1 of 38%
- 2 of 324%
- All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- March 3, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since January 2023 — all of them cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file.
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.
Details
- Phone
- (847) 885-7500
- Address
- 3600 Lexington Dr, Hoffman Est, 60192
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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 "HOFF. EST. PK. DIST. WILLOW REC. CTR." under Provider Name and 60192 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 009707).
- 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 "HOFF. EST. PK. DIST. WILLOW REC. CTR." under Provider Name and 60192 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 009707).
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.