Chicago Hts · Licensed center
La Branche's Childcare Center
A center in Chicago Hts, licensed for 80 children. The state cited something at 8 of 8 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: 8 of 8 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
- May 12, 2025
- On file
- 8 visits since February 2010 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 11, 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.
May 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · May 12, 2025
Health Requirements for Children
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(7) through (9) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(7) · 407.310(a)(9)
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(i)(4)(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2024 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · March 5, 2024
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) through (i)(4)(a) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · 407.250(i)(4)(a)
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)(3) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2022 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · February 9, 2022
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(d)(2) · Violation substantiated
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Mar 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · March 24, 2021
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jan 2021 Monitoring visit 9 findings
Monitoring visit · January 19, 2021
Personnel Records
6 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) through (6) · Violation corrected
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(5) · 407.120(a)(6)
Staffing Structure
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) · Violation corrected
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
Program Requirements for All Ages
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.200(r) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2015 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · February 17, 2015
Staffing Structure
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(d) · Violation substantiated
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Dec 2011 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · December 30, 2011
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(f) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Feb 2010 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · February 19, 2010
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 438254 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7087564010
- Address
- 1644 Vincennes Ave
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
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All checked August 2026.
State record
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Details
- Phone, Address, License — sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "LA BRANCHE'S CHILDCARE CENTER" under Provider Name and 60411 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 438254).