Chicago · Licensed center

Lincoln Square Loving Care

What these mean, and where they come from

Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; 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: 2 of 2 cited something

Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits. Two visits are too few to read as a pattern.

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
April 6, 2026
On file
2 visits since February 2025 — both cited findings
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was May 6, 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.

Apr 2026 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · April 6, 2026

Background Checks for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(e)(2) · Violation substantiated

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 627350 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Feb 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · February 27, 2025

Personnel Records

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

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 627350 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

7736570445

Website
lincolnsquare-lc.com
Address
2953 W Lawrence Ave
License
license issued (il)
Ages they serve
15 months to 5 years

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Details

  • Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "LINCOLN SQUARE LOVING CARE" under Provider Name and 60625 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 627350).
  • Website — Checked August 2026 lincolnsquare-lc.com
  • Ages they serve — Checked August 2026 lincolnsquare-lc.com