Morton Grove · Licensed center

Poko Loko School Inc

What these mean, and where they come from

Large means the biggest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 119 to 487 children. Small is 8 to 48; medium is 49 to 118.

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: 1 of 2 cited something

Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits. Two visits are too few to read as a pattern.

From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.

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State record — Illinois DCFS

Last visit
April 19, 2019
On file
2 visits since August 2016 — 1 cited nothing
Fixed?
Correction was due May 19, 2019. 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.

Apr 2019 Monitoring visit 11 findings

Monitoring visit · April 19, 2019

Guidance and Discipline

5 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)(1) through (5) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)(1) · 407.270(a)(2) · 407.270(a)(3) · 407.270(a)(4) · 407.270(a)(5)

General Requirements for Personnel

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6) through (d) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(c)(6) · 407.100(d)

Health Requirements for Children

2 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) through (6) · Violation corrected

89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a)(5) · 407.310(a)(6)

Staffing Structure

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.90(a)(2) · Violation corrected

Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d) · Violation corrected

DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 539190 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.

Aug 2016 Compliance monitoring visit nothing cited

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

8479668132

Address
5645 Dempster St
License
license issued (il)

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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 "POKO LOKO SCHOOL INC" under Provider Name and 60053 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 539190).