Park Forest · Licensed center
Prairie Kids Club - Algonquin
A center in Park Forest, licensed for 80 children. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Medium center. Medium means the middle half of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 49 to 118 children. Small is 8 to 48; large is 119 to 487.
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 1 cited something
Across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits). One visit is too few to read as a pattern.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- May 8, 2026
- On file
- 1 visit, May 2026 — it cited findings
- Fixed?
- Correction was due June 7, 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 22 findings
Monitoring visit · May 8, 2026
Enrollment and Discharge Procedures
10 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(c)(11) through (i)(4)(a) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.250(c)(11) · 407.250(c)(13) · 407.250(c)(14) · 407.250(d) · 407.250(i)(1) · 407.250(i)(2) · 407.250(i)(2)(a) · 407.250(i)(2)(e) · 407.250(i)(2)(g) · 407.250(i)(4)(a)
Personnel Records
9 citations · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) through (f)(2) · Violation substantiated
89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a) · 407.120(a)(1) · 407.120(a)(2) · 407.120(a)(3) · 407.120(a)(4) · 407.120(a)(5) · 407.120(e)(2) · 407.120(e)(4) · 407.120(f)(2)
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation substantiated
Qualifications for Early Childhood Assistants and School-age Assistants
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.150 · Violation corrected on site
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation substantiated
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 639752 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Details
- Phone
- 7083232818
- Address
- 170 Algonquin St
- License
- license issued (il)
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Sources and dates
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All checked August 2026.
State record
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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 "PRAIRIE KIDS CLUB - ALGONQUIN" under Provider Name and 60466 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 639752).