Franklin Park · Licensed center
Mary Sears Childrens Academy
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 103 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 no rules at any of its 3 licensing inspections since October 2022.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Feb 3, 2026Nothing cited
- Sep 25, 2024Nothing cited
- Oct 19, 2022Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 3 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had at least one: 89% of 110.
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%This center
- 1 of 38%
- 2 of 324%
- All 357%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- February 3, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since October 2022 — all of them cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Nothing was cited, so there is nothing to correct.
- Most serious
- Nothing was cited at any visit on file.
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.
Details
- Phone
- (847) 451-3704
- Address
- 9600 King St, Franklin Park, 60131
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State record
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address — Checked August 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "MARY SEARS CHILDRENS ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60131 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 590774).
- License — Checked October 2026 sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov/…/ProviderLookup.aspx. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "MARY SEARS CHILDRENS ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60131 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 590774).
- 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 "MARY SEARS CHILDRENS ACADEMY" under Provider Name and 60131 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 590774).
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.