Chicago · Licensed center

Lake Shore Schools Rogers Park

A Creative Curriculum center in Chicago, licensed for 208 children. The state cited something at 4 of 5 routine visits (Chicago-area centers: about 5 in 6).

How they teach

Creative Curriculum

“Lake Shore Schools implements and follows the Creative Curriculum for Preschool which promotes language, literacy, math, science, creative arts, social-emotional, physical health, and English Language development.”In their words. lakeshoreschoolschicago.com, August 2026

One of 26 Chicago-area providers that describe a Creative Curriculum approach, out of 129 that describe any approach at all.

Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, ratios and staff, sick and biting policies.

What the state has found

Routine visits: 4 of 5 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
July 22, 2025
On file
5 visits since April 2018 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was July 29, 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.

Jul 2025 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · July 22, 2025

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

4 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(8) through (9)(c) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(8) · 407.370(e)(9) · 407.370(e)(9)(b) · 407.370(e)(9)(c)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553515 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2025 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · June 9, 2025

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated

Qualifications for Child Care Director

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.130(j) · Violation substantiated

Medications

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(c)(2) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553515 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Dec 2019 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · December 23, 2019

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) through (3) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e) · 407.370(e)(3)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553515 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2018 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2018 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · April 17, 2018

Organization and Administration

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.70(i) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation corrected

Daily Arrival and Departure of Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.260(d) · Violation corrected

Health Requirements for Children

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 553515 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

A day here

Outdoors
Daily indoor and outdoor play, plus field trips around the community
Diapers
Funded-program families receive free diapers and formula as part of program support

Details

Phone
7737431118
Website
lakeshoreschoolschicago.com
Address
6759 N Greenview Ave
License
pending renewal application (rn)
Ages
6 weeks to 12 years
Established
1948

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How they teach

State record

Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.

A day here

Details