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Morton Grove · Licensed center

Poko Loko School Inc

At a glance

  • Large center, licensed for 160 children.

What to know

License: 6 weeks to 6 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 1 of its 2 licensing inspections since August 2016.

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Licensing inspections

  • Apr 19, 201911 citations
    • Guidance and Discipline

      • Guidance and Discipline

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)(1)

    • Guidance and Discipline

      • Guidance and Discipline

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)(2)

    • Guidance and Discipline

      • Guidance and Discipline

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)(3)

    • Guidance and Discipline

      • Guidance and Discipline

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)(4)

    • Guidance and Discipline

      • Guidance and Discipline

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.270(a)(5)

    • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

      • Enrollment and Discharge Procedures

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(d)

    • Health Requirements for Children

      • Health Requirements for Children

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

    • Health Requirements for Children

      • Health Requirements for Children

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

    • 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)(6)

    • General Requirements for Personnel

      • General Requirements for Personnel

        89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(d)

  • Aug 18, 2016Nothing cited

The state cited rules at 1 of this center's 2 inspections. Most Chicago-area centers inspected twice had more: 60% of 83 had rules cited at both.

How all 83 Chicago-area centers inspected twice compare

Of the 83 Chicago-area centers the state inspected twice, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None13%
  • 1 of 227%This center
  • Both60%
Read every record and the state’s reports

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

Details

Phone
(847) 966-8132
Address
5645 Dempster St, Morton Grove, 60053

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

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.

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