Chicago · Licensed center
Park West Cooperative Nursery School
At a glance
- Medium center, licensed for 60 children.
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
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 3 of its 4 licensing inspections since September 2020.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
May 5, 20264 citations
Staffing Structure
Staffing Structure
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2)
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5)
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3)
Medications
Medications
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(b)(1)
- May 25, 2023Nothing cited
May 17, 20221 citation
Personnel Records
Personnel Records
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4)
Sep 1, 20201 citation
General Requirements for Personnel
General Requirements for Personnel
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f)
The state cited rules at 3 of this center's 4 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had more: 59% of 117 had rules cited at all 4.
How all 117 Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times compare
Of the 117 Chicago-area centers the state inspected 4 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None2%
- 1 of 44%
- 2 of 413%
- 3 of 422%This center
- All 459%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- May 5, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since September 2020 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 5, 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.
May 2026 Monitoring visit 4 findings
Monitoring visit · May 5, 2026
Staffing Structure
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) · Violation corrected
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(5) · Violation corrected on site
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected on site
Medications
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.360(b)(1) · Violation corrected on site
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 015790 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 17, 2022
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(4) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 015790 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Sep 2020 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · September 1, 2020
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 015790 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (773) 327-1115
- Address
- 2214 N Bissell St, Chicago, 60614
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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 "PARK WEST COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60614 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 015790).
- Website — Checked August 2026 parkwestcoop.org
- 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 "PARK WEST COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60614 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 015790).
- Who runs it — Checked November 2026 projects.propublica.org
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.