Chicago · Licensed center

Nook North LLC

At a glance

Small center, licensed for 27 children.

What to know

License: 6 weeks to 3 years (state).

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 all 3 of its licensing inspections since January 2025.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

Oct 10, 20252 citations
- Guidance and Discipline
  Guidance and Discipline
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)
- General Requirements for Personnel
  General Requirements for Personnel
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d)
Apr 4, 20252 citations
- Physical Plant/Indoor Space
  Physical Plant/Indoor Space
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(q)
- Physical Plant/Indoor Space
  Physical Plant/Indoor Space
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(6)
Jan 13, 20251 citation
- Personnel Records
  Personnel Records
  89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(b)

The state cited rules at all 3 of this center's inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 3 times had the same: 57% 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%
1 of 38%
2 of 324%
All 357%This center

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit: October 10, 2025
On file: 3 visits since January 2025 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was November 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.

Oct 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · October 10, 2025

General Requirements for Personnel

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d) · Violation corrected

Guidance and Discipline

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 634264 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Apr 2025 Monitoring visit 2 findings

Monitoring visit · April 4, 2025

Physical Plant/Indoor Space

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(6) through (q) · Violation corrected on site

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.370(e)(6) · 407.370(q)

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 634264 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Jan 2025 Monitoring visit 1 finding

Monitoring visit · January 13, 2025

Personnel Records

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(b) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 634264 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Details

Phone: (773) 270-6754
Address: 2345 W North Ave # 47, Chicago, 60647

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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 "NOOK NORTH LLC" under Provider Name and 60647 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 634264).
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 "NOOK NORTH LLC" under Provider Name and 60647 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 634264).

Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; 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.