Chicago · Licensed center
Literacy Zone, Inc.
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 68 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 1 of its 3 licensing inspections since August 2017.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Jun 11, 2026Nothing cited
- Sep 11, 2023Nothing cited
Aug 29, 20171 citation
Grouping and Staffing
Grouping and Staffing
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a)
The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had more: 81% of 110 had rules cited at 2 or more.
How all 110 Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times compare
Of the 110 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 3 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None11%
- 1 of 38%This center
- 2 of 324%
- All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- June 11, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since August 2017 — 2 cited nothing
- 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.
Aug 2017 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · August 29, 2017
Grouping and Staffing
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.190(a) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 524676 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 306-0856
- Address
- 5831 S Western Ave, Chicago, 60636
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License — Checked July 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "LITERACY ZONE, INC." under Provider Name and 60636 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 524676).
- 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 "LITERACY ZONE, INC." under Provider Name and 60636 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 524676).
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.