Chicago · Licensed center
Jump Start Early Learning Academy
A center in Chicago, licensed for 64 children. The state cited something at 6 of 9 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6). 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: 6 of 9 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
- April 14, 2026
- On file
- 9 visits since April 2019 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 14, 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.
Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 8 findings
Monitoring visit · April 14, 2026
General Requirements for Personnel
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) through (d) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · 407.100(d)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · Violation corrected
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(d)(3) · Violation corrected
Equipment and Materials
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(a) · Violation corrected
Cited: FHSEC305
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575303 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 15, 2024
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(3) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575303 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · March 20, 2023
Provisions Pertaining to Permits
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.65(a)(5) · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(2) · Violation corrected
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575303 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2020 Monitoring visit 6 findings
Monitoring visit · January 31, 2020
Equipment and Materials
3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(j)(5)(a) through (d) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(j)(5)(a) · 407.380(j)(5)(b) · 407.380(j)(5)(d)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(h) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575303 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2019 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · July 9, 2019
Health Requirements for Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · 407.310(a)(6)
Organization and Administration
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(l) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575303 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2019 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · April 16, 2019
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(1) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 575303 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7736885683
- Address
- 7559 W Addison St
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
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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 "JUMP START EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60634 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 575303).