Chicago · Licensed center
Lily Pad Nursery And Preschool
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 79 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 its 1 licensing inspection, in December 2024.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
Dec 17, 20243 citations
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(h)
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b)
Equipment and Materials
Equipment and Materials
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(a)
The state cited rules at this center's 1 inspection. Most Chicago-area centers inspected once had the same: 81% of 53.
How all 53 Chicago-area centers inspected once compare
Of the 53 Chicago-area centers the state inspected once, whether that inspection cited a rule:
- No19%
- Yes81%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- December 17, 2024
- On file
- 1 visit, December 2024 — it cited findings
- Fixed?
- Correction was due January 10, 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.
Dec 2024 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · December 17, 2024
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(h) · Violation corrected
Special Requirements for Infants and Toddlers
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.210(b) · Violation corrected
Equipment and Materials
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.380(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 631560 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (312) 291-9256
- Address
- 1025 W Van Buren St, Chicago, 60607
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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 "STEPPING STONES NURSERY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60607 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 631560).
- 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 "STEPPING STONES NURSERY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60607 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 631560).
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.