Libertyville · Licensed center
Poko Loko Early Learning Center
At a glance
- Large center, licensed for 155 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 4 licensing inspections since December 2017.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Nov 20, 2025Nothing cited
- Nov 23, 2023Nothing cited
Nov 22, 20221 citation
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
- Dec 7, 2017Nothing cited
The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 4 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected 4 times had more: 94% of 117 had rules cited at 2 or more.
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%This center
- 2 of 413%
- 3 of 422%
- All 459%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- November 20, 2025
- On file
- 4 visits since December 2017 — 3 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- Correction was due December 9, 2022. 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.
Nov 2022 Monitoring visit 1 finding
Monitoring visit · November 22, 2022
A citation the state’s report lists only by its code, CCASEC4.
0 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 425121 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- (847) 680-4433
- Address
- 1601 Northwind Blvd, Libertyville, 60048
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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 "POKO LOKO EARLY LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60048 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 425121).
- 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 "POKO LOKO EARLY LEARNING CENTER" under Provider Name and 60048 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 425121).
Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,948 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.
The ages on the license are what the state licenses it to care for, which can be wider than the ages it takes.