Tinley Park · Licensed center
Kid's Station Inc.
A center in Tinley Park, licensed for 33 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
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 3 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits). Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
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 1, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since May 2023 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 1, 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 3 findings
Monitoring visit · April 1, 2026
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(2) · Violation substantiated
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(4) · Violation substantiated
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(f) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 598455 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · May 5, 2025
Provisions Pertaining to the License
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.60(g) · Violation substantiated
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 598455 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2023 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 16, 2023
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 598455 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7086208336
- Address
- 7777 W 159th St
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked August 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 "KID'S STATION INC." under Provider Name and 60477 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 598455).