Chicago · Licensed center
Joyful Learning Center Inc
A center in Chicago, licensed for 29 children. The state cited something at 3 of 4 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6).
Small center. 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 4 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
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
- August 10, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since August 2024 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 12, 2026. 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.
Mar 2026 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · March 12, 2026
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) through (7) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · 407.100(c)(7)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(g) · Violation substantiated
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(f)(24) · Violation substantiated
Napping and Sleeping
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b)(1) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 629530 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2025 Monitoring visit 5 findings
Monitoring visit · August 19, 2025
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) through (i) · Violation corrected on site · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · 407.100(i)
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(b) · Violation corrected on site
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(4) · Violation corrected
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 629530 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Aug 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 27, 2024
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 629530 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7089069120
- Website
- joyfullearningcenters.com
- Address
- 10721 S Western Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 · sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "JOYFUL LEARNING CENTER INC" under Provider Name and 60643 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 629530).
- Website — Checked August 2026 · joyfullearningcenters.com