Chicago · Licensed center
Little Nest Care
- Small center, licensed for 33 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
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: 6 of 6 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
- August 29, 2025
- On file
- 6 visits since June 2018 — all of them cited findings
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 28, 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.
Aug 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · August 29, 2025
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 557819 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2024 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 22, 2024
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 557819 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
May 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · May 25, 2022
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(1) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 557819 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2021 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · June 14, 2021
Physical Plant/Indoor Space
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(f)(3) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 557819 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jul 2019 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · July 25, 2019
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(1) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 557819 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Jun 2018 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · June 12, 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
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(6) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 557819 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
- Address
- 5426 W Devon Ave
- License
- pending renewal application (rn)
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All checked July 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 "LITTLE NEST CARE" under Provider Name and 60646 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 557819).