Arlington Hts · Licensed center
Kiddie Academy Of Arlington Heights
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 139 children.
- Kiddie Academy franchise; the brand is owned by Essential Brands, Inc. (privately held).
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 February 2021.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Dec 16, 2025Nothing cited
- Dec 18, 2024Nothing cited
- Feb 11, 2021Nothing 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
- December 16, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2021 — 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) 603-4500
- Address
- 880 W Dundee Rd, Arlington Hts, 60004
We couldn’t find some information that may matter to your decision: openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies. We can ask the program for you and copy you in.
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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 "KIDDIE ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS" under Provider Name and 60004 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 534853).
- Website, Who runs it — Checked October 2026 kiddieacademy.com
- 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 "KIDDIE ACADEMY OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS" under Provider Name and 60004 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 534853).
- Who runs it — Checked October 2026 kiddieacademy.com
Kiddie Academy's own site says the founding Miller family continues to own and operate Kiddie Academy, and that other families own and operate the academies in their communities. kiddieacademy.com
Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.