Palatine · Licensed center

Learning Loft, Inc.

What these mean, and where they come from

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: 4 of 9 cited something

Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine 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
June 3, 2026
On file
9 visits since July 2011 — 5 cited nothing
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was July 3, 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 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Jun 2026 Monitoring visit 3 findings

Monitoring visit · June 2, 2026

Personnel Records

3 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) through (b) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(6) · 407.120(b)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 081778 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · June 4, 2024

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 081778 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jun 2023 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Apr 2022 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
May 2021 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Aug 2019 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited
Aug 2018 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · August 27, 2018

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation corrected

Napping and Sleeping

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.350(b) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 081778 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jul 2011 Monitoring visit 4 findings

Monitoring visit · July 14, 2011

Provisions Pertaining to the License

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.60(f) through (g) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.60(f) · 407.60(g)

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected

Grouping and Staffing

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 081778 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

How the comparison is built

Routine visits: across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).

Details

8473595437

Address
655 N 1st Bank Dr
License
license issued (il)

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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 "LEARNING LOFT, INC." under Provider Name and 60067 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 081778).