Chicago · Licensed center
Kids Ark Daycare & Learning Center
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 49 children.
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 rules at 2 of its 3 licensing inspections since March 2025.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Jun 18, 20261 citation
Background Checks for Personnel
Background Checks for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110
Apr 6, 20262 citations
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
- Mar 6, 2025Nothing cited
The state cited rules at 2 of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had more: 57% of 110 had rules cited at all 3.
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%
- 1 of 38%
- 2 of 324%This center
- All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- June 18, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since March 2025 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 23, 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.
Jun 2026 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · June 18, 2026
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 620973 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · April 6, 2026
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation corrected
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 620973 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 865-5585
- Address
- 3143 N Central Ave # 45, Chicago, 60634
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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 "KIDS ARK DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60634 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 620973).
- 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 "KIDS ARK DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60634 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 620973).
Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.