Chicago · Licensed center
Kids Academy Early Childhood Dev Ct
A center in Chicago, licensed for 71 children.
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: 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
- August 13, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2022 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 12, 2025. 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.
Aug 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · August 13, 2025
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 586066 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · July 10, 2024
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 586066 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · July 18, 2022
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(3) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 586066 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7738532443
- Website
- kidsacademyecc.com
- Address
- 5645 N Milwaukee Ave # 47
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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Sources and dates
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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 — Checked July 2026 · sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "KIDS ACADEMY EARLY CHILDHOOD DEV CT" under Provider Name and 60646 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 586066).
- Website — Checked August 2026 · kidsacademyecc.com